Top 47 Grange Quotes
#1. Suggested Reading Louis Bayard, The Black Tower; Sarah Blake, Grange House; F. G. Cottam, The House of Lost Souls; Michael Cox, The Glass of Time; Mark Frost, The List of Seven; John Harwood, The Ghost Writer; Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale.
Susan Hill
#2. Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#3. When I started in 1978, the greatest wine in Spain, Vega Sicilia, wasn't even imported to the United States. The alleged greatest Australian wine, Penfolds Grange, wasn't imported to the United States. There were no by-the-glass programs. Sommeliers were intimidating.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#5. I tried to get a job in a freak show," he [Gregor] went on, "but they said I was overqualified. So I became the porter at Groosham Grange.
Anthony Horowitz
#6. I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
P.G. Wodehouse
#7. I'd not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange--not if I might have the privilege of flinging Joseph off the highest gable and painting the house-front with Hindley's blood.
Emily Bronte
#8. I went about my house hold duties, convinced that the Grange had but one sensible soul in its walls, and that lodged in my body.
Emily Bronte
#9. Mr. Grange is interested in grimoires and their efficacy. I
Lyndsay Faye
#10. Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf.
Emily Bronte
#11. It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine Advocate.' There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence).
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#13. He said that even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering and he thought that he'd guessed out likewise for the living a nominal grief like a grange from which disaster and ruin are proportioned by laws of equity too subtle for divining.
Cormac McCarthy
#14. There are literally a million ways to deal with any situation and Madiba was the best teacher in tutoring me to see those ways, but lying was never an option.
Zelda La Grange
#16. I did not then know that the world is often plainer than people imagine and that the truth, no matter how banal, is always alive and glowing.
Jean-Christophe Grange
#17. I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.
Red Grange
#18. To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves.
Zelda La Grange
#19. It is of vital importance to [Mandela] to be courteous and grateful at all times, as we never know whether we will have the opportunity to thank people or pay respect whenever they have been good to you.
Zelda La Grange
#20. When you are older you will meet a man who will love you for yourself. A good-natured, charming respectable man who is liked by you family.
Amanda Grange
#21. It's sad but it^s true how society says her life is alredy over. There's nothing to do and there's nothing to say..
Jean-Christophe Grange
#22. I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.
Red Grange
#24. No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?
Red Grange
#25. Crime is a career, whether you are a practitioner or an investigator, and it requires intuition and patience.
Jean-Christophe Grange
#26. President Mandela was never scared to admit his own mistakes and then almost jump at the opportunity of apologising and then to move on.
Zelda La Grange
#27. Of all the evenings it is possible to spend, a companionable evening with friends is the best.
Amanda Grange
#28. If we all spoke the truth there would be a great deal of unhappiness in the world, and particularly at such a time. Some things are better left unsaid.
Amanda Grange
#29. Every football player knows when his time is up.
Red Grange
#30. Beneath their wary smiles, the people were warm and friendly. They had known sorrow and loss, but their spirit survived.
Amanda Grange
#31. Be kind to every person you meet because we don't know their battles.
Zelda La Grange
#32. Bitterness will make you sick. During [Madiba's] imprisonment they were forced to work in the limestone quarry. Chipping away for no reason. Bitterness is the same. You reduce your own character with such a mindless exercise of cultivating bitterness.
Zelda La Grange
#33. There is a difference between really being concerned about service delivery and incompetence and just complaining for the sake of it.
Zelda La Grange
#34. It's not important in life what happens to you, but how you handle what happens to you.
Zelda La Grange
#35. [Mandela] had believed all his life that you are very much in control of your own body, and, in the process of healing, your mind had to be stronger than the medicines applied. You also had to have determination to get better.
Zelda La Grange
#37. It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat.
Amanda Grange
#38. I was overwhelmed by the smells. Slow, heavy odours, tenaciously biting, forming a strange mixture of excessive life and death, of birth and decay.
Jean-Christophe Grange
#39. It was irrelevant how much time you spent with Madiba. Your relationship with him depended on how you felt about him in you heart.
Zelda La Grange
#40. A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.
Red Grange
#41. The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.
Red Grange
#42. Loyalty and dedication can't be bought or paid to go away.
Zelda La Grange
#43. They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.
Kenneth Grange
#44. That I have not yet met the right woman, and that there is no use my marrying unless I find someone I like as well as Emma,' I said.
He laughed, though I did not know why. There was nothing very amusing in what I had said.
Amanda Grange
#46. Another of Madiba's great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion with someone but that never justifies disrespect.
Zelda La Grange
#47. To a good man, yes, one who knows her in all her moods, who can laugh at her follies and rejoice in her virtues; who will not allow her to give in to her worst instincts; one who knows her, and who, knowing her, will still love her, and love her as she should be loved.
Amanda Grange