Grantor's Quotes

#1. When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

Maya Angelou

#2. Annual U.S. spending on cosmetics: $8 billion Basic education for all global children: $6 billion Annual U.S. and European spending on perfume: $12 billion Clean water for all global citizens $9 billion

Jen Hatmaker

#3. When evening fell the boy would bring the girl a glass of tea, a slice of lemon cake, an apple blossom floating in a blue cup. He would kiss her neck and whisper new names in her ear: beauty, beloved, cherished, my heart.

Leigh Bardugo

#4. Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

Walter E. Williams

#5. Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.

Alexander MacLaren

#6. Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

Peter R. Grant

#7. I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called.

John Quincy Adams

#8. In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.

Wallace Stegner

#9. I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.

Matthew Rhys

#10. The bastard had made my underwear disappear.

R.K. Lilley

#11. Giving back is the new luxury,

Franca Sozzani

#12. The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

Timothy Ferriss