Grandmam Quotes & Sayings

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis. — Michael Porter

Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able to see for crying, but I would have considered that a duty. — Terry Pratchett

Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. — Chuck Close

My friend, that, as anyone can see, is not a hotel; it's a depot. — Ken Kesey

I saw on his face a glimpse of his past. The damage, the unhappiness and the pain, and I wondered what kind of skeletons he has been hiding and for how long. It's one of those mutual attraction moments that are unexplainable, but as real as anything you've ever seen. Almost like my soul knows his soul. — Cyma Rizwaan Khan

Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another. — Khaled Hosseini

Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things. — Peter Kreeft

As I went about my work then as a young woman, and still now when I am old, Grandmam has been often close to me in my thoughts. And again I come to the difficulty of finding words. It is hard to say what it means to be at work and thinking of a person you loved and love still who did that same work before you and who taught you to do it. It is a comfort ever and always, like hearing the rhyme come when you are singing a song. — Wendell Berry

Once people take time to find out who I really am you'd be surprised — Tupac Shakur

You want me to be killed? Why are you taking away my knife? I guess you realize you're sending me to my grave? — Henri Charriere

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me. — Wendell Berry

Grandmam, as I have seen in looking back, was the decider of my fate. She shaped my life, without of course knowing what my life would be. She taught me many things that I was going to need to know, without either us knowing I would need to know them. She made the connections that made my life.... If it hadn't been for her, what would my life have been? I don't know. I know it surely would have been different. And it is only by looking back, as an old woman myself, like her a widow and a grandmother, that I can see how much she loved me and can pay her out of my heart the love I owe her. — Wendell Berry

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

We had, you could say, everything but money
Grandmam and I did, anyhow. We had each other and our work, and not much time to think of what we didn't have. — Wendell Berry

Some children at one of his tournaments in Burgundy had taken to calling him "Goliath". Not the most endearing biblical character. — Melanie Dickerson