Grandam Quotes & Sayings

I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do. — Shawn Colvin

I really did love you," he said softly. Then he straightened up and his eyes were unreadable. Blank. "But there are some things in this world more important than love. Some things that last longer. Empires. You build something great, something large, something that gets people's attention, and you're remembered forever. You love a girl, give her your heart, and you won't be remembered six years later. Love doesn't last. But empires do. They go on. And on. And on. Even if just in history books. — Karina Halle

CLOWN. Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness: thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits; and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well. — William Shakespeare

Children and fried food; the more you make, the better they come out. — Francine Segan

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought. — Francois Mauriac

You're a beautiful girl, and you can do anything you want in life. — Jeanine Pirro

They planned to know one another when they were ancient and gray-when we're doddering around with canes and have forgotten the names of our wives, we will still be Bassets,and still be young in our hearts. — E. Lockhart

But the problem is to make the soul into a monster — Arthur Rimbaud

Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. — Bryan Stevenson

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners. — James MacArthur

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work. — Jeffrey Brown

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new. — Ester Dean

I hope our children look like you. They would be beautiful then. I don't want ugly children. I'm very shallow. — Tiffany Reisz

I remembered Grandam telling me about an early Old Earth scientist, one Charles Darwin, who had come up with one of the early theories of evolution or gravitation or somesuch, and how - although raised a devout Christian even before the reward of the cruciform - he had become an atheist while studying a terrestrial wasp that paralyzed some large species of spider, planted its embryo, and let the spider recover and go about its business until it was time for the hatched wasp larvae to burrow its way out of the living spider's abdomen. — Dan Simmons

("It seemed to be the principle employment of both armies to look at each other with spyglasses," wrote the eminent Loyalist Peter Oliver, former chief justice of the province.) — David McCullough