T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.”
“The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus - the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in its Gothic disapproval of all that was modern and changeable.”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“The grandeurs of the crazy man alone,
Himself the middle of a roaring world.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“The grandfather clock was all right until Grandma fixed it. All she did was tap it and the weights dropped off. She always had that effect on gentlemen.”
Source: Wise Children
“The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.”
Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
“The grandiose plans of what Macintosh was gonna be was just so far out of whack with the truth of what the product was doing. And the truth of what the product was doing was not horrible, it was salvageable. But the gap between the two was just so unthinkable that somebody had to do something, and that somebody was John Sculley.”
“The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.”
Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find
“The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.”
Source: Faith's Checkbook
“The Grants will make their train. Julia is so eager to leave town that she has chosen the local, which takes thirteen long hours to reach Burlington. The faster option would be the seven-thirty express in the morning, but that would mean a night at the theater with the daft and unbalanced Mary Lincoln. Julia Grant's mind is made up.
What Ulysses S. Grant does not know is that he will be returning to Washington by the same train within twenty-four hours.”
“The granularity of bones in
a body. A forest with galaxies of moss.”
Source: Ghost Tracks
“The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.”
“The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape.
[Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]”
“The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.”
Source: Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth
“The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.”
Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition
“The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.”
Source: John Barleycorn
“The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.”
“The graph of life is not a straight line—
Initiatives climax to gradually decline.
The world is infused with greed and hate—
Where innocent errors may alter one's fate.
Where the fulfillment of desires fails to satiate—
Where turbulence is a constant state.”
Source: The Illustrious Garden
“The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.”
“The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.”
“The graphic novel? I love comics and so, yes. I don't think we talked about that. We weren't influenced necessarily by graphic novels but we certainly, once the screenplay was done, we talked about the idea that you could continue, you could tell back story, you could do things in sort of a graphic novel world just because we kind of like that world.”
“The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue.”
“The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors.”
“The graphics of Israeli life, death, and detention are more vibrant; it conforms to the norm of human life already established, is then more of a life, is life, whereas Palestinian life is either no life, a shadow-life, or a threat to life as we know it. In this last form, it has undergone a full transformation into arsenal or spectral threat, figuring an infinite threat against which a limitless “defense” formulates itself. That defense without limit then embodies the principles of attack without limit (without shame, and without regard for established international protocols regarding war crimes).”
Source: Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?
“The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ("The grass was greener over there")”
“The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.”
“The grass in the meadow is wet and the ground gives a little beneath her feet. The herd of alpacas that have taken up residence in the meadow graze in the far distance. Maggie cuts a path towards the distant stile, watching as a flock of starlings take flight, swooping up from the earth and across the bone-colored sky until they come to settle in the treetops.
Stepping into the woods, Maggie senses the shift in atmosphere; here the air is a little cleaner, the light a little softer, glancing off the smooth, silver-grey trunks and dancing in the green canopy. She breathes the trees' exhalation, takes it in and makes it her own, inhales the moist-earth scent rising up beneath her boots and fills her lungs. The leaves rustle in the breeze, dripping the last of the raindrops in a steady beat.”
Source: The Peacock Summer
“The grass is a
brighter shade of lush
Life devoid of
maddening rush
So much going right
for mother nature
Reinstated partly
To original stature
QUARANTINE+VE”
“The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.”
“The grass is always greener on the other side.”
“The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction.”
Source: Drive
“The grass is always greener on the other side--that's because we can't see over the fence.”
“The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Vince Russo has been there in which case the grass is most likely dead.”
“The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.”
“The grass is always greener over the septic tank.”
Source: Es darf auch mal Champagner sein
“The grass is always greener when it's covered in money.”
“The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would like it. I'm thrilled to observe other people, but I don't want to be in their shoes. If I got there, I might find it not quite what I expected, and it would break my illusion, and I don't want that!”
“The grass is greener on a marihuana farm.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“The grass is greener on the other side, but often this is just an illusion. Most probably, everyone is as unhappy as you.”
Source: What I Wish I Had Known
“The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.”
“The grass is not always greener on the other side. You learn to appreciate these people.”
“The grass is not 'greener' on the other side – it is just another shade of green.”
Source: Take Stress from Chaos to Calm
“The grass is not only greener on the side you water but also on the side you prevent preys from feeding on. Learn to keep out the preys and see your lawn flourish.”
“The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.”
Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
“The grass is waking in the ground, / Soon it will rise and blow in waves - / How can it have the heart to sway / Over the graves, / New graves?”
Source: Rivers to the Sea
“The grass isn't always greener on the other side!”
“The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.”
“The grass may not be softer later, and it may be brown tomorrow, but at least it's not lava.”
“The grass on the other side of the hill may well be greener, but you should always check that there isn't something with teeth and claws crouching in it.”
Source: Wizard's Brew
“The grass on the other side of the road was a pullulating emerald green, the rocks that grew here and there among the grass were almost dazzlingly alight with little diamonds. The warm air met me in a wave, thick with land smells of earth and growth and flowers.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea