Grandina Human Quotes & Sayings

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. — Maya Lin

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young. — Jeff Lindsay

Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it ... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me. — Michael Jordan

I've never played anyone who didn't like themselves. I don't care if they're unattractive, but it's important that they think of themselves as attractive. And I guess that's part of their charm. — Amy Sedaris

Clara wore a dress of brown and cream velvet, and her feathered mask, in comparison, made her look like a sparrow — Malinda Lo

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about. — Afrika Bambaataa

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real. — Sarah Dessen

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth ... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold ... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.' — Sue Townsend

Sometimes we are so focused on winning the race that we do not realize that we may possibly be in the wrong race. My — Ashwin Sanghi

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this. — Victor Hugo

I've got the drinkers and the smokers and the eaters on my side. — John Daly

We suffocate with uncoordinated facts; our minds are overwhelmed with science breeding and multiplying into specialistic chaos for want of synthetic thought and a unifying philosophy. We are all mere fragments of what a man might be. — Will Durant

For it is monstrous that the feet should direct the head. — Elizabeth I

I don't mean to step on anyone's toes, and I don't mean to seem arrogant, but if you want to be foreverly remembered as anything great you have to live your life alone, hated, ignored, and character assassinated, and if you believe this to be true than you truely are a hater. — B.L. Kennison