168 Great Grand Quotes

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Famous Great Grand Quotes

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. — Abraham Lincoln

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. — Lois Wyse

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. - Gore Vidal

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. — Gore Vidal

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. — Black Elk

Rock is my child and my grandfather. - Chuck Berry

Rock is my child and my grandfather. — Chuck Berry

Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother. — Margaret Whitlam

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids. — Tony Campolo

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. — Lewis Mumford

Your great great grandfather lived most of his life without running water or electricity, and he was probably more racist than you are. You’ve never met him, but without him, you wouldn’t exist. — Tim Urban

Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. — Gene Perret

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. — Sam Levenson

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. — Sam Levenson

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything. — Vivien Leigh

Elephants and grandchildren never forget. — Andy Rooney

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren. - Brock Yates

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren. — Brock Yates

Short Great Grand Quotes

  • You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. — Abraham Lincoln
  • So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons. — Pat Boone
  • If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. — Lois Wyse
  • Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. — Doug Larson
  • Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves. — Andrew Carnegie
  • I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. — Woody Allen
  • My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. — Henny Youngman
  • My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. — Rita Rudner
  • The grandfather builds the Empire, the father squanders the Empire, and the son loses the Empire. — Chinese Proverbs
  • Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. — Chuck Berry

Great Grand Image Quotes

Great grand quote Silence is a source of great strength.
Silence is a source of great strength.

Grand Finale Quotes

The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end. — James Dobson

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale. — Lauren DeStefano

I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing. ... I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it. — Stan Wawrinka

Great grand quote Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man. — William Saroyan

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself. — Viswanathan Anand

There are three states of legality in Irish law. There is all this stuff which comes under That's grand, then it moves into Ah now don't push it, and finally it comes under Right now you're takin the piss, and that's when the police come in. — Dara O Briain

Great grand quote Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.

You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record. — Lleyton Hewitt

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley. — Gary Neville

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life. — David Hyde Pierce

What I think a lot of that was K-1 having had their Grand Prix finals not even a month before the "Dynamite!!" show so a lot of those guys were coming into that fight pressured to fight. — Shawn Tompkins

Great Grandchildren Quotes

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. — Albert Einstein

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. — Astrid Lindgren

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. — Paul D. Boyer

Great grand quote Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better. — Mitt Romney

Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them. — Jay Kesler

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren. — Doug Larson

Great grand quote Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. — Gene Perret

I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone. — Sean Penn

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. — Ogden Nash

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. — Gene Perret

Great Grandpa Quotes

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. - Louis Adamic

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. — Louis Adamic

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. — Bill Cosby

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. — Gene Perret

Great grand quote You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with. — Gene Perret

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo." — Robert Breault

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet. — Gene Perret

Great grand quote Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. — Gene Perret

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren. — Art Linkletter

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. — Susan Strasberg

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano. — Dolly Parton

Great Grandma Quotes

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma. — Teresa Bloomingdale

My great grandma always told me to drink a lot of milk because it's good for the skin. — Barbara Palvin

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. — Pam Brown

Great grand quote To a great mind, nothing is little.
To a great mind, nothing is little.

I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um, it was a combination of peyote and preserves, and it was this hallucinogenic jam. — Eddie Vedder

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it. — Zach Anner

Great grand quote Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.

"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive. — Gene Perret

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. — William Shakespeare

Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned ravioli. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men. — Dolly Parton

Grandfather Quotes

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. — Indira Gandhi

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car. — Will Rogers

Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future. — Prince Charles

Great grand quote Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

You must be better than us and better than your fathers and grandfathers. This is not an option, you must do this. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician. — Angela Lansbury

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me. — Giada De Laurentiis

Great grand quote No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. — Black Elk

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour! — Anne Baxter

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played. — Brandi Chastain

We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing. — Roger Mahony

Great Grandfather Quotes

My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country. — Betty Ford

It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor. — Will Graham

My grandfather drove a camel, my father drove a camel, I drove a Mercedes, my son drove a Land Rover and my grandson will drive a Land Rover, but my great-grandson will drive a camel. — Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. — Rudy Giuliani

What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home. — Leonard Peltier

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died. — Norm MacDonald

This generation of little children is the 7th Generation. Not just Indian children but white, black, yellow and red. Our grandfathers said the 7th generation would provide new spiritual leaders, medicine people, doctors, teachers and our great chiefs. There is a spiritual rebirth going on. — Clyde Bellecourt

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather! — Louis Sachar

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then? — David Hyde Pierce

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg. — Roy Barnes

Great Grandkids Quotes

I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds. — Phil Robertson

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution? — Matt Damon

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?" — Mike Tyson

What happens when you put all your money into your home? Everybody's going to want to move in, whereas rich people set money off for their great-great grandkids. They got money that's circling for itself. — Redman

I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress. — Colleen Atwood

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family. — Conor McGregor

Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids. — Robert Redford

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on! — Dick Van Dyke

Great Grandmother Quotes

The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Today there are people trying take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen. — Kerry Washington

A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes. — Melissa Fay Greene

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. — Mark Twain

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it! — Hannah Whitall Smith

My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights. — Anthony Jeselnik

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all. — Fanny Fern

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. — Michael Pollan

I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators. — Mother Jones

My great grandmother was Chinese . — Michael Craig-Martin

Granddaddy Quotes

They made hot dog buns so you don’t gotta put your lips on the wiener… My granddaddy taught me that. — Theo Von

Me personally, I come from very, very humble beginnings - little, small town in Alabama, you know, staying at my granddaddy house. We really didn't have nothing. — Gucci Mane

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it. — Jimmy Dean

My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year. — Josh Turner

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love. — Alveda King

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day. — Donald Knuth

My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week. — Willie Nelson

I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters. — Michael Ritchie

I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all. — Theodore Bikel

Granddaddy can pick up a phone and call anyone in the world and they will take his call. But he doesn't know it. — Johnny Hunt

Grandchildren Quotes

I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. — Nikita Khrushchev

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? — David Attenborough

How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing. — David Attenborough

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung

We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences. — Ban Ki-moon

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. — Gaylord Nelson

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. — Lois Wyse

When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time. — Gary Haugen

Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren. — Heinrich Himmler

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren. — Ellen Barkin

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More Great Grand Quotes

They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore. — John Gierach

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of. — Emily Carr

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea. — Walt Whitman

the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean. — Mary Kingsley

In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony. — Theodore E. Steinway

The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that twists and turns as it hurtles forward. A grand debut. One taste, and you'll be addicted. — Keith Donohue

First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce flames of such, in an attempt to have his own feeble light shine brighter. When one isn't able to acknowledge greatness, I would really want to know how he endeavours to make me experience it. — Felix Mendelssohn

Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life. — Pico Iyer

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end. — George Matthew Adams

The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies. — Alexander Crummell

The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth. — Leonard Ravenhill

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract. — Red Smith

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard. — Richard Bode

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. — Doris Lessing

Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it. — Krist Novoselic

Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart. — J. C. Ryle

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves. — John Piper

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. — Benjamin Franklin

In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert. — Edward Abbey

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy. — Leslie Easterbrook

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.] — Jean De La Fontaine

I am pained to listen that my daughters, grand daughters and great grand daughters are no longer safe. — Fauja Singh

Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown. — Francois Rabelais

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand. — Abraham Lincoln

Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; .... It shows us how small is man's body, how great his mind, since his intelligence can embrace the whole of this dazzling immensity, where his body is only an obscure point, and enjoy its silent harmony. — Henri Poincare

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer. — Hubert Humphrey

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.] — Carlo Goldoni

Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough. — Anthony Stafford Beer

O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people. — John Fletcher

I spend a lot of time working and with my family, so I don't have much time around the edges to do much else. I don't really listen to a great deal of music. I love music, but since I spend a lot of time in the studio, we probably watch a movie rather than listen to albums. I get to hear stuff, but not on the grand scale. — Kate Bush

We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry. — Daniel Harvey Hill

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer. — Hubert H. Humphrey

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home. — Paul Theroux

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence. — Cornel West

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