Grand Dad Quotes

#1. In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)

Robert Anton Wilson

#2. Avery's tone was grand and high-pitched." And, since I've been hanging out with you, Dad's decided I'm on good behavior now."
"Poor oblivious bastard," murmured Christian.

Richelle Mead

#3. When my mom pulled the trigger my dad had a full house, three fives and a pair of ducks. He was all in. The paper says although dead, he ended up winning seven grand. I once heard someone on tv say we die as we lived. That sounds about right.

David Ebershoff

#4. I was lucky enough to watch my son hit a grand slam at sports camp, and that was great. Yes, I may miss some things, but honestly, I think I get to see more than a dad who works a daily 9 to 5.

CC Sabathia

#5. I would comment on the scene, but I've never kissed a woman so I don't really have anything to add ...

Todd Grisham

#6. You wouldn't show up to a great job with a terrible resume, so don't show up to a great man with a terrible past.

Behdad Sami

#7. You'd better go now; I don't think Miggs could manage again so soon, even if he is crazy, do you?

Thomas Harris

#8. The brain is a furnace./
Is transformed and transforms.

Stan Rice

#9. I love you," I murmured. "Love you more," he retorted. I stiffened. "This is not a competition." A grand declaration that I followed with, "But if it were, I'd win." Because my dad taught me how to cheat.

Eve Langlais

#10. It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.

Louis Untermeyer

#11. God does not hide from us His positive side

Sunday Adelaja

#12. It isn't much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.

Andrew Vachss

#13. She had felt a surge of fear so strong

Jane Smiley

#14. I had felt no hatred in all the years when they rejected me. If my work was new, I had to give them time to learn, if I took pride in being first to break a trail to a height of my own, I had no right to complain if others were slow to follow.

Ayn Rand

#15. There was a long silence, finally broken by Teff'ith. Jedi Grand Master mom, Supreme Commander dad. Now we get why Theron's so messed up. So you sending a fleet, or what?

Drew Karpyshyn

#16. Where I grew up, acting wasn't really accessible. I was just playing sports. But, I did watch a lot of TV. I watched a lot of Clint Eastwood movies on TV and had this fantasy of being like him when I grew up.

Bailey Chase

#17. The people setting out on these walks weren't seeking to conquer peaks or test themselves against maps and miles. They were looking for a mystical communion with the land; they walked backwards in time to an imagined past suffused with magical, native glamour:

Helen Macdonald

#18. It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out.

Evan Peters