Granny Aching Quotes

#1. man of power and responsibility nevertheless needs somebody to tell him when he is being a bloody fool. Granny Aching fulfilled that task with commendable enthusiasm,

Terry Pratchett

#2. The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

Zeno Of Citium

#3. This new world was already turning her into a cabbagehead, and she'd only been a part of it for an evening

Sarah MacLean

#4. We are as gods to beasts of the field. We order the time of their birth and the time of their death. Between times, we have a duty.

Terry Pratchett

#5. This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Hesiod

#7. A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

George Savile

#8. I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God.

Stephen Fry

#9. Why exactly do you go to yoga classes? You're such a calm, well-balanced person, and a woman who knows what she wants. Aren't you wasting your time? My heart starts beating again. I don't answer. I simply smile and stroke his face.

Paulo Coelho

#10. Felix Mersey might be the cream of the aristocracy, but in the boiler room Soap was undisputed king - grimy empire though it might be.

Gail Carriger

#11. P57- the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.

Paulo Freire

#12. During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.

Lorenz Oken

#13. She taught me so much, she said to herself. She built me as we were walking around after the sheep, and she told me all those things that I needed to know, and the first thing was to look after people. Of course, the other thing had been to look after the sheep.

Terry Pratchett

#14. But the banging of the door as punctuation caused Tiffany to think and she thought suddenly, I want to do it my way. Not how the other witches think it should be done. I can't be Granny Weatherwax for them. I can only be me, Tiffany Aching.

Terry Pratchett