Grandmothers Pinterest Quotes & Sayings

What does it say?" asked my lord.
"It says, 'Good-night, God keep you all the night!'--just what she used to say when we were together. Every night she used to say that to me, and every morning she said, 'God bless you all the day!' So you see I am quite safe all the time---- — Frances Hodgson Burnett

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later ... — Kazuo Ishiguro

You can't change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future. — Shamarion Whitaker

I have for some days held and controlled every avenue by which the people and garrison of Savannah can be supplied, and I am therefore justified in demanding the surrender of the city ... I am prepared to grant liberal terms to the inhabitants and garrison; but should I be forced to resort to assault, or the slower and surer process of starvation, I shall then feel justified in resorting to the harshest measures, and shall make little effort to restrain my army - burning to avenge the national wrong which they attach to Savannah and other large cities which have been so prominent in dragging our country into civil war. — William T. Sherman

When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes,
I think he knew what he would do,
what he would have to do,
and he was mourning us.
He was mourning us the whole time. — Emma Forrest

The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now. — Wayne Dyer

In the next place, wonderful as it seems in a sexual world, the Martians were absolutely without sex, and therefore without any of the tumultuous emotions that arise ... — H.G.Wells

My grandfather was an ordinary British citizen in the time of British Raj. He used to have Bengali friends from whom I learnt Bengali. — Fahmid Hassan Prohor

In the process of being a lady from a girl ... I understood that the White Knight, the Prince Charming and the Bad Guy are kind of same. You cant distinguish them by how they look or behave and often the Bad Guy has the better dressing sense. — Upasana Banerjee

Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want ... just a little taste of what might have been. — Lisa Kleypas

I can't do exercises regularly because my schedule changes from day to day. I'm okay with hurting myself, like I'll lift something until it hurts, but I don't want to pass out or vomit in front of people. — Anthony Bourdain

Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past. — Joyce Meyer