Quotes & Sayings About Grandparents Passing Away

My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life. — Celine Dion

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening. — Judith Butler

I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now. — David Ginola

Motivation clears the head faster than a nasal spray. — William Zinsser

We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone. — James Balog

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters? — Khalil

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore. — Francis Bacon

I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States. — Tim Hardaway

To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show. — Penn Jillette

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs. — Jean Paul

The stillness consequent on the cessation of the rumbling and labouring of the coach, added to the stillness of the night, made it very quiet indeed. The panting of the horses communicated a tremulous motion — Anonymous

Knowing peace is havcing a stillness in your heart while in the middle of chaos — Judy Azar LeBlanc

She felt some strange yearning, but she couldn't decide what it was for. Not for the city: it seemed like another country to her now, remembered, not felt. She knew if she were there, walking past the market with its glistening stacks of fruit that sometimes rolled onto the pavement, stepping into the pharmacy for overpriced shampoo and body cream, passing the windows full of nice clothes like the clothes she already has (once she got a linen blouse home only to discover that she owned one almost exactly like it), she would be convinced that she could no longer stand to be be away, that she missed it all terribly. But from here that life seemed unreal, like something she saw in a movie. She wondered if that's how her grandparents had managed to leave the old country behind, whether it had ceased to exist as a discernible thing once it was gone along the watery horizon, whether they had told themselves that some day they would come back to reclaim it. — Anna Quindlen

Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Well, that explained it, then. Secret demon hunter and thief. Man, did I know how to pick 'em. — Rachel Hawkins

Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment. — Nelson DeMille