Grenadier Quotes & Sayings

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really. — Dave Rowntree

I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America ... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on. — Benjamin Franklin

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. — Ernest Hemingway,

The Balkans aren't worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier. — Otto Von Bismarck

If you want to write, you write. The only way to learn to write is by writing. — Stephen King

You doan go diggin' for gold in an outhouse. — Sandra Hill

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies. — Vera Farmiga

No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier. — Austen Chamberlain

Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge. — Herman Melville

I think the Internet has definitely made it easier for people to have stuff seen, but it's also encouraged a level of ADD, where you see so much that if it doesn't make an impact on you immediately, you don't look at it. — Shepard Fairey

Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think. — Ray Bourhis

To have on her head a most wonderful bonnet like a Grenadier wooden measure, and good measure too, or a great Stilton cheese, — Charles Dickens

The Duce told me that he foresaw the possibility of a conflict between Germany and Russia. He said that we could not stay out of this because it involved the struggle against communism. It was, therefore, necessary to make arrangements for the bringing together between Ljubljana and Zagreb of a motorized division, of an armored division, and of the grenadier division. — Ugo Cavallero

Keep your dreams more exciting than your memories. When your memories are more exciting than your dreams, you've begun to die. — H. Dale Burke

Be fully present for five minutes every day. — Geneen Roth

I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that there is one and only one valid argument on which a case for giving up strategic bombing could be based, namely that it has already completed its task and that nothing now remains for the Armies to do except to occupy Germany against unorganized resistance. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet