Top 29 Grandsire's Quotes
#1. Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.
Josh Billings
#2. Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game,
Where wasted nations raise a single name;
And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret,
From age to age in everlasting debt;
Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey
To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
Samuel Johnson
#3. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
Oliver Goldsmith
#4. They had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance.
Jane Austen
#5. Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.
Susan Brownmiller
#6. My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.
Isabelle Adjani
#7. We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
Ayn Rand
#8. Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.
George R R Martin
#9. Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.
Adam Roberts
#11. I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.
John Waters
#12. In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
Jonathan Swift
#13. Mencheres. Bones co-ruler, grandsire, Master vampire of incredible power, and the ally who unnerved me the most, had telekinetically held me down so Bones could boink me into submission enroute to the vampire holding cell? Sweet holy Jesus, let me have hallucinated hearing that!
Jeaniene Frost
#14. Bountiful was the table of your grandsire, for there is still fat at the root of my heart from the feasts he gave in my honour.
Raymond E. Feist
#15. For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
Billy Zane
#16. Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench
John Milton
#17. If one day, a bhailach ... ye should meet a verra large mouse named Michael-ye'll tell him your grandsire sends his regards.
Diana Gabaldon
#18. My grandsire,' Jamie observed evenly, 'has by all reports got a character that would enable him to hide conveniently behind a spiral staircase.
Diana Gabaldon
#19. In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.
Robert Fripp
#21. If I had signed my fourth season of SNL, I wouldn't have ever had the opportunity to do Curb Your Enthusiasm. If my buddy OG Pearson wouldn't have passed away, I wouldn't have been in L.A. for his memorial, and I would've never auditioned for Curb.
J. B. Smoove
#22. It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!
William Shakespeare
#23. Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.
Benny Green
#24. Indeed," Jamie said politely. "I believe that was the Crown's notion in executing my grandsire on Tower Hill after the Rising. Verra effective, too; all my relations have been quite well behaved since.
Diana Gabaldon
#25. Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst,
Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest,
With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd,
And wander'd in the solitary shade.
The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd
Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
Alexander Pope
#27. You always were beautiful, and you always will be beautiful.
Bryant McGill
#28. Bloody hell, grandsire," were Bones's first words as he approached. "You've left behind a wreckage of burned bodies, dead vampires, missing persons, threatened Guardians, and video evidence of our race's existence. Then you go on holiday. You really do have a death wish
Jeaniene Frost
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