Grandma Daughter Granddaughter Quotes & Sayings

Rigor mattered. Koreans understood that mastering difficult academic content was important. They didn't take shortcuts, especially in math. They assumed that performance was mostly a product of hard work - not God-given talent. This attitude meant that all kids tried harder, and it was more valuable to a country than gold or oil. — Amanda Ripley

Find someone at last someone find you at last live together glued together love each other a little without being loved be loved a little without loving answer that leave it vague leave it dark — Samuel Beckett

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal. — Madeleine Albright

It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world. — Dick Francis

Hello little one. Did you know you're on private property?"

"Really? I had no idea." Meryn fudged.

He raised an eyebrow. "The ten foot fence right behind you didn't give it away? — Alanea Alder

Death has come in the pantry door: stands watching them, iron and patient, with a look that says 'try to tickle me. — Thomas Pynchon

You know that song that asks, "Why do fools fall in love?"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools. — Ellen DeGeneres

Only the home can found a state. — Joseph Cook

I've been told that the color blue can actually cause the body to produce calming chemicals, helping one to relax.
I wonder if that's true. I wonder if it's false. I wonder what it says about me that I feel nothing. — Caroline Nolan

The reward is found in the work. — Bruce Lee

The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong. — Han Fei

There are different forms of seduction, and the kind I have witnessed in Persian dancers is so unique, such a mixture of subtlety and brazenness, I cannot find a Western equivalent to compare it to. I have seen women of vastly different backgrounds take on that same expression: a hazy, lazy, flirtatious look in their eyes ... This sort of seduction is elusive; it is sinewy and tactile. It twists, twirls, winds and unwinds. Hands curl and uncurl while the waist seems to coil and recoil ... It is openly seductive but not surrendering. — Azar Nafisi

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point. — Cal Ripken Jr.

A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective. — Laurie Nadel

I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion. — Carine Roitfeld

More recently, some of us have been able to infiltrate the new ethereal-wave system that now encircles the globe, and to travel around that way, looking out at the world through the flat, illuminated surfaces that serve as domestic shrines. Perhaps that's how the gods were able to come and go as quickly as they did back then - they must have had something like that at their disposal. — Margaret Atwood