Grantly Quotes

#1. Mrs Grantly after her father's death. This matter, therefore, had been taken out of the warden's hands

Anthony Trollope

#2. Dr Grantly is by no means a bad man; he is exactly the man which such an education as his was most likely to form; his intellect being sufficient for such a place in the world, but not sufficient to put him in advance of it.

Anthony Trollope

#3. Perhaps one day, you'll become a man and sail the oceans too. Perhaps you'll find buried treasure and discover new lands of your own. The world lays waiting for your adventures too and we can only dream of what they may be.

Maxwell Grantly

#4. The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours.

Maxwell Grantly

#5. A week is a long time in the life of a child.

Maxwell Grantly

#6. Fear can be overcome only by Faith.

Grantly Dick-Read

#7. When you see a beautiful woman in the street, don't look at her hatefully as if you're about to kill her and don't exhibit excessive longing either; just give her a little smile, avert your eyes, and walk on [1974]. Taking

Orhan Pamuk

#8. What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?

Grantly Dick-Read

#9. You've got to have a deep yearning for the answer if you ever want to truly learn something really well. If something has no value, it's simply not appreciated.

Maxwell Grantly

#10. I like knowing what makes people tick and wakes me stop ticking, like clocks.

Jay Coles

#11. I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.

Steven Soderbergh

#12. The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breatfeeding satisfies all three.

Grantly Dick-Read

#13. Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.

Bill Crawford

#14. Don't think that we know everything there is to know. There are secrets to be found and unknown facts to be discovered. Who knows what delights there are to be discovered beyond our current knowledge.

Maxwell Grantly

#15. I just want you to be yourself. Be a bigger yourself.

Tyra Banks

#16. Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.

Grantly Dick-Read

#17. If left alone in labor, the body of a woman produces most easily the baby that is not interfered with by its mother's mind or the assistant's hand. If left alone, just courage and patience are required.

Grantly Dick-Read

#18. It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement ... The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love.

Grantly Dick-Read

#19. Sometimes you have to close your eyes to see more clearly. Magical things are easier to see if your eyes are closed.

Maxwell Grantly

#20. Great things await you. You have a lifetime of amazing dreams to fulfil and noble ambitions to achieve

Maxwell Grantly

#21. Don't ever be deceived by the size or the lack of size of an object. Sometimes the smallest can be the mightiest of them all.

Maxwell Grantly

#22. The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

Francis Quarles

#23. When a child is loved as a child, it does not matter if they are boy or girl, abled-body or disabled, elven or human, true parental love is not skin deep but it penetrates deep down right into the soul.

Maxwell Grantly

#24. The wonderful thing about having your songs on the radio is that people are going to go out to your concerts and buy your merchandise and that sort of thing, and it feels good to get that level of name recognition.

Roger McGuinn

#25. When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

Richard Seymour

#26. Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Thomas Carlyle

#27. No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

Grantly Dick-Read

#28. I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of peace.

Darin Strauss

#29. There's beauty all around us if only we stop and search for it.

Maxwell Grantly

#30. Let me tell you a secret, a tremendous and wonderful secret. Let me share with you something so valuable that any schoolboy would gladly trade his most treasured procession to find out what I shall tell you.

Maxwell Grantly

#31. My name is Brandt Cross, and my life used to be seven kinds of fucked up ... Now it's eight ...

Jus Accardo