Gradgrind Quotes

#1. Mr. Gradgrind greatly tormented his mind about what the people read in this library:

Anonymous

#2. Tom, I wonder' - upon which Mr. Gradgrind, who was the person overhearing, stepped forth into the light and said, 'Louisa, never wonder!

Anonymous

#3. There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

Charles Dickens

#4. Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#5. My mother painted with water," he says. "And my father played with fire.

Ally Condie

#6. All those substitutes for magic Muggles use - electricity, computers, and radar, and all those things - they all go haywire around Hogwarts, there's too much magic in the air.

J.K. Rowling

#7. Go and be somethingological directly.

Charles Dickens

#8. Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Eric Hoffer

#9. Not to know. Not to remember.
With this one hope:
That beyond the River Lethe, there is memory, healed.

Czeslaw Milosz

#10. Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.

Mitch Kapor

#11. As Ben Franklin said, "Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75." I

Steve Kamb

#12. A defenseman passed the puck to the right forward, and he flipped, fell on his face, the defenseman took over the puck, dived and scored.

J.M.K. Walkow

#13. Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

Debbie Ford

#14. Only a fool would make the bed every day.

Nancy Spain

#15. Brunetti's best friend had often said that he wanted death to take him just at the moment he laid his last lira down on a bar and said, 'Prosecco for everyone.

Donna Leon

#16. We have seen ... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

Josiah Strong

#17. You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.

Conrad Sewell