G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Grand Sky/Grand Prairie
Both harbor the vastness of space. One holds the space
Of starlight, thunder snow, rock and icy comets, scrolls
Of clouds; the other the spaces inside see heart and ovum,
Root webs, spider webs, budded blossoms.
They lean together tightly day and night, pressing
One into the other, each creating the horizon of the other.
They exchange themselves. At evening one becomes
The steady night in which the other lives. Yet witness
How the moon first rises from the body of the prairie
Into the height of the sky that then possesses it.
Their horizons are persistent illusion.”
Source: Quickening Fields
“Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.”
“Grand Slams are different. If you can get through a few matches, the draw opens up and you get confident. You just need a little bit of luck early, you get through those opening matches and you never know what could happen.”
“Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position in the second week. A lot of strange things happen.”
“Grand strategy is about marrying ends to means, about doing what you can, consistent with the nation's capabilities and resources.”
Source: Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
“Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.”
“Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.”
“Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out,
Showing the unreality of Time.”
Source: The poems of Richard Monckton Milnes
“Grand Tourists and their retinues typically crossed the choppy English Channel at the Port of Dover, stepping onto French soil in Calais. From there, the parties would set off on a three-day trek to Paris. Once fitted for new clothes, many proceeded to decamp for a season or longer for their first taste of Continental culture. (...)
Not everyone took the same route. The more adventurous traveled from Paris to Lyon then farther south to Marseille, journeying by sea from Marseille to Livorno, in the Tuscany region, or Genoa, although the Italians’ lack of necessary sailing skills at that time made passage risky. Meanwhile, the wary typically trekked from Paris to Lyon then over the Alps. For the latter, Geneva was a subsequent stop, by default rather than preference. Despite the breathtaking beauty of the Alps, coaches—the mode of transport used at the time—simply could not traverse the treacherous Mont Cenis pass, ascending 6,827 feet. Invariably, the harrowing peaks and rocky precipices forced willing travelers to navigate by mule or sled. Regardless of the hassles, those who pressed on reaped extravagant rewards. (...)
All roads, however, ultimately led to Rome, befitting its vaunted history as the intellectual, scientific and artistic center of the Renaissance and Baroque culture.”
Source: The Allure of French & Italian Decor
“Grand Turk Island is so named because it is the largest island in the Turks Islands, which is the smaller of the two archipelagos that make up the island nation. Grand Turk was first settled in 1681 by Bermudians, who started a salt industry. In 1766, the Island became the territory's capitol, Cockburn Town. It has the second largest population of the archipelago with 3,720 people. There are those that believe that it was here that Columbus first set foot in the America’s, and although San Salvador is still accepted as being the actual island where he landed, there is convincing evidence that this may not be so. For years Grand Turk was frequently referred to as Grand Cay. Grand Turk gained attention in 1962, when John Glenn's Friendship 7 splashed into the Atlantic Ocean, off the southeast shoreline of the Grand Turk Island. A replica of the Friendship 7 is on display in Grand Turk at the entrance to the Grand Turk Island International Airport.”
“Grand visions, even those as prescient as Washington's, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses up before history in the long run arrives to validate the vision.”
Source: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
“Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“Grandad has a long and earnest conversation with his grandchild. He says, you are noisy and wiggly and will be sent back if you don't pull herself together....The baby smiles complacently. She has him exactly where she wants him.”
“Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them.”
Source: Tamar
“Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.”
“Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.”
Source: Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother
“Grandchildren can be annoying - how many times can you go: "And the cow goes moo and the pig goes oink"? It's like talking to a supermodel.”
“Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.”
“Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.”
Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First
“Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.”
“Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.”
“Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.”
Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First
“Granddad always said the best things about fishing were beyond the senses. He said the mountains, rivers and fish were the center of why you were there, but not the heart, that the heart was in those pure moments in and around the fishing, or rather what was on the other side of those moments that can only be felt, not told because words were not up to the job. That’s what hooked your soul.”
Source: Burnt Tree Fork
“Granddad said I needed to get some muscles because I was looking gay these days. No, he didn't really say that. Speaking of which, here's Parrish.' Someone cuffed the back of Adam's head. He blinked up. One way, then the other. His assailant had come up on Adam's deaf side. 'Oh,' Adam said. It was Tad Carruthers, whose worst fault was that Adam didn't like him and Tad couldn't tell. 'Oh,' mimicked Tad benevolently, as if Adam's standoffish-ness charmed him. Adam wanted desperately and masochistically for Tad to ask him where he had summered. Instead, Tad turned to where Ronan was still reclined with his eyes closed. He lifted a hand to cuff Ronan's head but lost his nerve an inch into the swing. Instead, he just drummed on Ronan's desk and moved on.”
Source: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.”
“Granddaddy can pick up a phone and call anyone in the world and they will take his call. But he doesn't know it.”
“Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.”
“Grande parte da retórica esquerdista tradicional procede de noções obsoletas da ética do trabalho: o burguês seria mau porque não realiza nenhum trabalho produtivo, enquanto que os honoráveis proletários mereceriam os frutos de seu trabalho, etc. Com o trabalho tornando-se a cada vez mais desnecessário e dirigido para fins cada vez mais absurdos, esta perspectiva perdeu todo o sentido que porventura teve algum dia. A questão não é elogiar o proletariado, mas aboli-lo.”
Source: The Joy of Revolution
“Grande parte do aconselhamento convencional oferecido aos trabalhadores e aos estudantes que se preparam para entrar no mercado de trabalho não tem, muito provavelmente, nenhuma eficácia.”
Source: Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
“Grande y digno ejemplo darías tú, oh mujer! rompiendo las tradicionales costumbres, injustas y tiranas, símbolos de la ignorancia para establecer el reinado de la Libertad, Igualdad y Fraternidad, símbolos de la verdad y la justicia!”
“Grande é a poesia, a bondade e as danças…
Mas o melhor do mundo são as crianças,
Flores, música, o luar, e o sol, que peca
Só quando, em vez de criar, seca.”
Source: Liberdade e outros Poemas Ortónimos
“Grander the dream, steeper the climb.”
Source: Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students
“Grandes ideias morrem todos os dias por falta de execução. A Appmart nasceu para mudar isso.”
“Grandes níveis de intelectualidade são caracterizados pela curiosidade e não escolaridade!”
“Grandes reis começam uma guerra com um grande exército. Reis grandiosos são mais sutis. Para que se inicie uma guerra basta uma faca afiada. E a garganta certa.”
Source: O Teatro da Ira
“Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.”
Source: Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers
“Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life”
Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
“Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro... and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible... but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity.”
“Grandfather?”
Source: The Empire of Gold
“Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.”
Source: Collected Works
“Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Grandfather : Death is nothing to be afraid of.
Renee : It's not death I'm afraid of.
Grandfather: What is it, then?
Renee : LIFE”
Source: Dead Beautiful
“Grandfather died a few days after his hundredth birthday. Both Father and I were there at the end, in the room where I'd been born, forty-four years ago. It was not unlike that day, with sunlight streaming through the windows, and hummingbirds hovering outside, iridescent sun-glittering flashes of jewels. A dove was calling, back in the cool shade. Grandfather's hand was cool, as cool as the river. He tried to sit up to look out at the sunlight.
"Sycamores grow by running water," he sang, "cottonwoods by still water," and then he died, and I felt a century slip away.”
Source: The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness: Three Lyrical Short Stories of Texas, Appalachia, and the Untamed American West
“Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch.”
Source: A Magical Girl Retires
“Grandfather informs me that is not possible.”
“Grandfather, is it all right if we join you for a bit?"
"Of course. Particularly since you've brought sustenance." He eyed the tray of food.
It looked like a food magazine layout, featuring a variety of cheeses with fresh berries on brightly painted Italian pottery, and a tiny glass container of honey with the smallest spoon he'd ever seen.
Isabel laced a thread of honey across the cheeses. "These are my favorite honey and cheese pairings. Comte, Appenzeller and ricotta. I had my first honey harvest last summer- a small one. That's when I realized I needed extra help with my beekeeping."
"Sorry I wasn't your guy," said Mac.”
Source: The Beekeeper's Ball
“Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. “The obligations of normal human kindness – chesed, as the Hebrew has it – that we all owe. But there’s a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There’s a kind of vanity in goodness.”
I could hardly believe my ears. “But aren’t we supposed to be good?”
“I’m not sure.” Grandfather’s voice was heavy. “I do know that we’re not good, and there’s a lot of truth to the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
Source: A Ring of Endless Light
“Grandfather said God's love is like that. Fathoms and fathoms surrounding us so we can never escape it.”
Source: The Mistletoe Countess