A Celebration Of Grandfathers Quotes & Sayings

How strong these people were to leave such a lasting impression. — Rudolfo Anaya

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama. — Fred Allen

The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next. — Glen Duncan

She will not be clever, but still, I see no reason why she should not one day lead a satisfying life separately from her sister. Perhaps she might even marry. All men do not seek intelligence in a wife, and Emmeline is very affectionate. — Diane Setterfield

I have lifted the veil. I have created life, wrested the secret of life from life. Now do you understand? From the lives of those who have gone before, I have created life. — Edward T. Lowe Jr.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. — David Hockney

So why are you here?"
He lifted his hands and made as if to lay them on her arms, but just before they touched he stopped and let them fall. Then, simply, as though it were all the explanation she could ever need, he said, "Because I love you. — Aprilynne Pike

Doing nothing," Inez said, "is a choice in its own way. When you do nothing, you still do something. — Laura Lippman

Charlene's thoughts:
I'm next in the green jumper's Class. I thought I'd be in the red jumpers' class because of my red hair. — Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

It filled me up with heaven as much as it tore me to hell. — Nicole Christie

I know that Duke made a number of demands, including that the attorney general drop its investigation. We have no intention of asking the attorney general to do that. — Gray Davis

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. — Maurice Strong

He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so pure and strong that it was capable of reordering the universe. He knew this, and that he lacked it, and yet as he stood in the courtyard of the Palazzo Venezia, watching diplomats file quietly out the gate, he was content, for he suspected that to command the profoundest love might in the end be far less beautiful a thing than to suffer its absence. — Mark Helprin