Earl Of Grantham Quotes

#1. The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

Michael Gove

#2. A reader of The Unspeakables recently contacted me. She said she had become so engrossed with the paperback she'd taken it to the top of a Munro whilst climbing on the Isle of Mull. I'm delighted to have three-dimensional circulation as well.

Peter F. Jemison

#3. Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him in most respects except the uniform. One possible tactic is to try to get the uniforms off.

Germaine Greer

#4. It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

John Quincy Adams

#5. I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.

Rebekah Brooks

#6. Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it's what makes being a best friend official.

J.A. Redmerski

#7. It's getting darker and darker out there. We need to shine brighter and brighter.

Michael Tait

#8. Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind.

Judith S. Beck

#9. When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.

Frederick Lenz

#10. You're
swimming so hard in this ocean.
Don't you know
if you float,
it will always hold you up?

Terra Elan McVoy

#11. Peace will come when people have food.

Momofuku Ando

#12. It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

Thomas Carlyle

#13. I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.

Bill Murray

#14. You never know what your next dig is going to find.

Bill Wyman

#15. On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.

Annie Jacobsen