Grandmother Zhang Quotes

#1. If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction.

Walter E. Williams

#2. Wifehood and motherhood ... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would ... essay to carry to success.

Marie Pitt

#3. You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

Denzel Washington

#4. Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, "Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters."
More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan.

Rick Riordan

#5. Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another.

Diane Glancy

#6. There because of her brilliance but only tolerated because it was clear she was one, too, on whom true Ladyhood would never be conferred.

Alice Walker

#7. They want to cook you and eat you," she said distatefully, "which is ridiculous. You'd taste terrible."
"Thank you, grandmother.

Rick Riordan

#8. The UN now and world government eventually must serve one single goal - the guarantee of the security, tranquillity, and the welfare of all mankind.

Albert Einstein

#9. Hazel squinted. "How far?"
"Just over the river and through the woods."
Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?"
Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway.

Rick Riordan

#10. Seriousness is a sickness ... Existense is pure playfulness

Rajneesh

#11. Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

Albert Camus

#12. Thoughts are as simple as the process ... a message from the soul; conveyed through the heart; received in the mind

Jeremy Aldana

#13. Because apologizing for something you didn't do is better than dying for it!

Rick Riordan

#14. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Nelson Mandela

#15. Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?

Rick Riordan