G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Granny Weatherwaz was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed.”
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“Granola didn't sell very well when it was good for you. Now it has caramel, chocolate, marshmallow, saturated fat and sweeteners with a small amount of oats and grains. Sales picked up.”
“Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.”
Source: The Education of Little Tree
“Grant Allen once said that an Englishman's idea of God was another Englishman twelve feet high, and I suppose that is more or less everybody's idea of God- with the necessary geographical adjustment. Zenith Brown has an idea about God that pleases me. 'God,' says Mrs. Brown, 'is obviously a friendly enough Old Gentleman most of the time, Who wishes us well and tries to see to it that we are reasonably happy. It is equally obvious the He has an idiot brother who takes over the reins whenever God Himself goes fishing. It is when the idiot brother is in charge of things that the world goes wrong and we have wars, famines, and pestilences on earth.”
Source: Born in a Bookshop: Chapters from the Chicago Renascence
“Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been anxious to stop the further effusion of blood, and he trusted that everything would now be done to restore harmony and conciliate the people of the South. He said the emancipation of the Negroes would be no hindrance to the restoring of relations between the two sections of the country, as it would probably not be the desire of the majority of the Southern people to restore slavery then, even if the question were left open to them.”
“Grant believed that generous terms were essential to pacification. In Grant's eyes, the surrender was a triumph of right over wrong: proof of the moral and material superiority of the North's free-labor democratic society over the South's slave-labor autocratic one. Grant's hope, in extending clemency, was to change hearts and minds--to effect Confederate repentance and submission.
In Lee's view, by contrast, the United States' victory was one of might over right, attributable to brutal force, not to skill and virtue. Although Lee rejected the option of guerrilla warfare as impractical and dishonorable, he did not admit moral defeat or counsel submission.”
Source: Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
“Grant didn't look like a sophomore - Grant looked like Brad Pitt's body double.”
Source: Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy
“Grant each dawn the grace to unfold into the most radiant chapter of your life.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Grant gave her the thumbs up signal. It had become a common communications gesture for the group, especially when words could not be used for whatever reason.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Grant glanced down at his khaki jacket. Since he’d slipped on the US Navy uniform in Agent Bounter’s office, he’d felt a confident swagger possess him. His spine lengthened, and his shoulders retracted. He should’ve been wearing this every day, not the stupid dress shirt and slacks of a lounge singer.”
Source: On Best Behavior
“Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Grant is the beginning of the Patent Game, not its end.”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“Grant kissed my neck that I offered up like a willing victim in True Blood. Take me... Bite me. Lick me. Oh this was madness! Glorious, wonderful madness!"
-Julie
From: A New Addiction”
“Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a few minutes. Silverware turned black in a few days. A compost heap decayed in a season. A child grew up in a decade. None of these everyday human experiences prepared people to be able to imagine the meaning of eighty million years - the length of time that had passed since this little animal had died.”
Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
“Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.”
“Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.”
“Grant me daily the grace of gratitude, to be thankful for all my gifts, and so be freed from artificial needs, that I might lead a joyful, simple life.”
“Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shores
To clasp the bosom that my soul adores,
Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.”
Source: Faust, First Part
“Grant me one night from thousands, for one night
Say that what's sinful is allowed and right.
Don't draw your head back from accepting me,
On my head be the guilt! Your chastity
Remains unblemished and the sin's my own,
One of the many that are mine alone.”
Source: Layla and Majnun
“Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.”
“Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made,
and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!”
Source: Fastorum libri sex: the Fasti of Ovid
“Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.”
“Grant me serenity, my rage eternal”
“Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.”
“Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.”
Source: Poems
“Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.”
“Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help.”
“Grant me the liberty of thought, and my soul shall be yours entire”
Source: Poemas y canciones para el mal de amores Volumen1
“Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure , and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend.”
“Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.”
“Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.”
“Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.”
“Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.”
“Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.”
“Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!”
Source: The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Grant no one access to your time unless they give it the value it requires.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;”
Source: The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen
“Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.”
“Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.”
“Grant placed a glass of wine into Emily's hand and tapped her glass with his. "Here's to the remarkable woman who races across the country on Monday to save her company and turns out a beautiful meal on a moment's notice on Friday." Down the Aisle”
Source: Down the Aisle
“Grant pressed his back against the outside wall of the turquoise and white two-story home he and a team of Miami PD officers were about to storm. On the surface the place fit in perfectly into the upper middle class neighborhood. On the inside, however, it was a fully functioning cocaine lab.”
Source: Danger Next Door
“Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.”
“Grant stood by me when I was crazy.”
Source: William Tecumseh Sherman: Gold Rush Banker
“Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater.”
“Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.”
“Grant that I may experience the power of Thy Word before I deliver it.”
Source: Sermons of Christmas Evans: A New Translation from the Welsh
“Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.”
“Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace
to all those around me
and all those in my thoughts
this day and ever more.”
“Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings