Gran Torino Quotes

#1. At the risk of sounding like that old guy in 'Gran Torino' telling those 'young punks' to 'get off my lawn,' it's gotten to the point that whenever I hear somebody talking about Twitter or twittering or tweeting, it just makes my little tummy want to hurl.

John Ridley

#2. In the movies, every crazy old fart needs a cool old car. Jack Nicholson drove a spiffy yellow 1970 Dodge Challenger two-door in 'The Bucket List.' In 'Gran Torino,' the cranky pensioner played by Clint Eastwood not only owned a 1972 GT Sport, he also used to build cars like that at the Ford plant.

Richard Corliss

#3. In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

Clint Eastwood

#4. And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

Donny Deutsch

#5. A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Marcus Garvey

#6. America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for.

Lee Daniels

#7. Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us? It is not clear what dictates the choice nor why, among the millions of human beings we might be, it is the being we were the day before that we unerringly grasp.

Marcel Proust

#8. A picture postcard is a symptom of loneliness.

Graham Greene

#9. If one could be enraged by the loss of a favorite sports team, shouldn't his anger rise at the entrenchment of a scheme whereby no innocent person was safe, where self-determination was a crime punished by the vagaries of an opaque & impervious justice system?

Ausma Zehanat Khan

#10. We were doomed from the start. A lost cause. A losing battle. And yet, in that narrow instant, I didn't give a single fuck.

Julie Johnson

#11. The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

Pope Benedict XVI

#12. The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.

Aristotle.

#13. And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Alexander Pope