Grandpappy Quotes & Sayings

Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter. — Brent Weeks

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors. — Taylor Caldwell

Love is a flower of mind. — Debasish Mridha

God checkmates His opponents before the game begins. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. — John Updike

Take your grandpappy--goin' out there is about the only recreation he gets. He'll go out some rainy night with his nighties flappin' around his legs, and like as not when you come out in the mornin' you'll find him prone in the mud, or maybe skidded off one of them curves and wound up in the corn crib. — Charles Sale

Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures. — John Ortberg

Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day son, a man had to answer for the wicked he done. Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree, round up all the bad boys, and hang them in the streets for all the people to see. — Toby Keith

It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and my father had a dong that shot juice. How could they have things like that and walk around as if everything was normal, and talk about things, and then do it and not tell anybody? — Charles Bukowski

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing. — Ram Dass

'Star Wars' novels that focus on a single character are few and far between. — James Luceno

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority. — Malcolm X

After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better. — Bryce Dallas Howard

It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin.
Everybody happy, hair still nappy,
Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy ... — Snoop Dogg

Too much schooling ruins a woman; everyone knows that. It gives a woman a big head and she will start to insult her husband. What kind of wife will that be? — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The key to success is to first know thyself. The definition of success by another person must not paralyse you or make you think less of your potential to succeed in your own way. — Archibald Marwizi