G Quotes
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“Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language”
“Grammar is the grave of letters.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?”
“Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.”
Source: On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench
“Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.”
“Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.”
“Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.”
“Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.”
“Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.”
“Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.”
Source: Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
“Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.”
Source: A grammar of the English language, etc
“Grammar, which can govern even Kings.”
“Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.”
“Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.”
“Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.”
Source: A Dictionary of Thought
“Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.”
“Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world, and each other, they're relevant.”
“Grammy was a little disappointed, I think, to see there weren’t too many customers. We’d accidentally scheduled our trip on a Saturday during football season, which meant the entire state of Alabama would appear to have been raptured unless you were in a stadium or in front of a TV.”
“Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.”
“Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.”
“Grampa Foster always says that every single experience has something to teach us about ourselves. “So don’t expect to get too comfortable or you’ll never learn a thing!”
Trinity, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea”
Source: The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
“Grampa says the grass is not greener on the other side. All grass changes with the seasons, it grows, it browns, and it can die if you do not nurture it. You must accept the changes, yet the grass is as green as you make it right here and now! Going from one meadow to another does not change the season! Or the meadow!"
Deetkatu, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure”
Source: See the Little People...An Enchanting Adventure
“Grampa says the grass is not greener on the other side. All grass changes with the seasons, it grows, it browns, and it can die if you do not nurture it. You must accept the changes, yet the grass is as green as you make it right here and now! Going from one meadow to another does not change the season! Or the meadow!
Deetkatu, See the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure”
“Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me, and his father before," he said quietly. He spooned the honey onto the cover of one of her books. "Taste," he said, almost in a whisper. . . . "There is such sweetness inside of that book too!" he said thoughtfully. "Such things...adventure, knowledge and wisdom. But these things do not come easily. You have to pursue them. Just like we ran after the bees to find their tree, so you must also chase these things through the pages of a book!”
“Grams waved off his annoyed tones. "Oh, hush, you old fart. Let kids be kids. I remember a certain boy who used to kiss me like that too."
"Who was it?" Big Paw sneered. "I'll kick his ass.”
Source: The Wreckage of Us
“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works. What confronts you? The fact that the terrain is not favourable to your project. Understand that, even if it disillusions you, even if it makes you awake at night. Understand it. Then you're in a position to say 'Well what is.... what can change? Where are the emergent forces? Where are the cracks and the contradictions? What are the elements in popular consciousness one could mobilise for a different political program?”
“Gran always said our West Virginia mountains is like the bosom of the Almighty, keeping us protected and still in Him.”
Source: Child of the Mountains
“Gran and I were on a blanket eating one of her famous baguette sandwiches, something with ham and butter and little cornichon pickles. Gran was telling me how to pronounce "jambon aux beurre," the French name for a ham and butter sandwich.”
Source: My Magnolia Summer
“Gran follows recipes by looking at picture—to the eye, delicious; to the tongue, boiled socks. Makes you wanna cry really.”
Source: Plastic Fantastic
“Gran gobierno = oligarquía. Es una ecuación simple. Gran gobierno = pérdida de representación.”
Source: Thoughts in the Ether: Pensamientos en el Éter
“Gran had always called the space between life and death "the two walks", a corridor where souls came and went from between worlds.”
Source: The Spectral City
“Gran...I just want to say thank you for everything. I didn't realize how much you sacrificed.” “Children never do. Good Lord made it that way.”
Source: Second House from the Corner
“Gran is alone, too. I don’t know why I never thought of it before. I think of the last five years, and Gran and Bob living in the same house all that time. I can’t decide if it’s nice or just really sad.
“Why don’t you move to America? You could live at our house! I’m sure Mom and Dad wouldn’t mind.”
Gran nods. “They’ve offered. Problem is, I love it here.” She raises her arms and kind of waves at the trees. “I love the place and I love the people.”
So maybe it’s not sad that Gran lives alone. Maybe it’s a choice.”
“Gran magistero della natura fu quello d'interrompere, per modo di dire, la vita col sonno. Questa interruzione è quasi una rinnovazione, e il risvegliarsi come un rinascimento. Infatti anche la giornata ha la sua gioventù. Oltre alla gran varietà che nasce da questi continui interrompimenti, che fanno di una vita sola come tante vite. E lo staccare una giornata dall'altra è un sommo rimedio contro la monotonia dell'esistenza. Né questa si poteva diversificare e variare maggiormente, che componendola in gran parte quasi del suo contrario, cioè di una specie di morte.”
Source: Zibaldone di pensieri
“Gran parte de una desgracia cualquiera consiste, por así decirlo, en la sombra de la desgracia, en la reflexión sobre ella. Es decir en el hecho de que no se limite uno a sufrir, sino que se vea obligado a seguir considerando el hecho de que sufre.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“Gran parte de una desgracia cualquiera consiste, por así decirlo, en la sombra de la desgracia, en la reflexión sobre ella. Es decir en el hecho de que no se limite uno a sufrir, sino que se vea obligado a seguir considerando el hecho de que sufre. Yo cada uno de mis días interminables no solamente lo vivo en pena, sino pensando en lo que es vivir en pena un día detrás de otro.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“Gran, seriously, you are one scary old bird.
Er, firebird. Not old bird, if you please.”
Source: Hannah and the Hollow Tree
“Gran used to say, Never mind what others think; it's what you think that matters. And I agree. One must live by their own moral code, not follow like a sheep blindly.”
Source: The Maid
“Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?" She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax." My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine. "Granny, "I told her, "this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need.”
“Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons."”
“Granana lives on the other side of the island. She's eighty-four, I'm twelve, and Wallow's fourteen, so it's a little ambiguous as to who's babysitting whom.”
Source: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
“Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.”
“Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.”
“Grand designs in war are a thing of vanity. Victory goes to the general that blunders the least.”
– Theodosius the Unconquered, Tyrant of Helike”
Source: So You Want to Be a Villain?
“Grand failures – the misfortunes of living – provide human beings with an identity. A person is the sum of his or her grievous errors.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player yet, because of some width to the holes, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy.”
“Grand is the sky above the sky, warm is the jacket, gold is the rest.”
“Grand mountain, grander sunrise. Fields far away, but farther goes the light.”
“Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.”