Ralph Siu quotes

“Do not refuse a wing to the persons who gave you the whole chicken.”
-- Ralph Siu

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“If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people”
-- Ralph Siu

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“Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.”

“One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.”

“Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.”

“We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.”

“We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.”

“I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.”

“View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.”

“We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was”

“I don't eat chicken abortions!”

Source : Cecily Von Ziegesar (2003). “You Know You Love Me: A Gossip Girl Novel”, p.153, A&C Black

“Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.”