Top 96 Grenade Quotes
#1. If Christians are all loving and full of God's grace (like some of us really are), do they truly love their neighbor? Would they catch a grenade for one of us (like some of us would for them because we truly have love in our hearts)?
Solange Nicole
#2. Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Norman Mailer
#3. I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.
Cory Booker
#4. Oh my God! What was I going to do? How did I get here? I was just minding my own business and someone lobbed a grenade into my life - in the form of Jack Eversea.
Natasha Boyd
#5. People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade.
David Gower
#6. I thought we stopped using grunts as guinea pigs decades ago. Even the Nazis didn't run medical experiments on their own troops in combat. This book explodes like a grenade in the Pentagon's privy. Red it and weep; better yet, get mad."
Col. David H. Hackworth (U.S. Army, ret.)
Gary Matsumoto
#7. I've always been curious as to why one man jumps out of a fox-hole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest and his buddy, who sits right there next to him, sits there cowering. My feeling is that the different is tiny between the two.
Stephen Lang
#8. German-made Heckler & Koch MP-7 submachine guns with special compact M40 grenade launchers under the barrels.
Matthew Reilly
#9. Earlyworm rolled the words along the table like a fragmentation grenade.
Keith Laumer
#10. I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.
Peter Scott
#11. He opened his mouth to protest, but she gave him her angry-black-woman death stare until he calmed down. She then strapped her grenade launcher to her back, slipped on her mask, pushed aside the metal latrine, and dropped into the sewer.
Thomas Greanias
#12. She wears glasses that are not too small. I wish I was a girl like that. I wear contact lenses because glasses make me look like I am wearing glasses. I am not saying this properly. When she wears glasses she looks so quiet, like a grenade with the pin still in.
Joey Comeau
#13. I believe when you're stuck in one spot for too long it's best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump ... and pray.
Robyn Davidson
#14. Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.
Anthony Horowitz
#15. Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett ... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.
Anthony Horowitz
#16. Pretending to be someone you're not is like kissing a live grenade.
It feels smooth with your eyes closed, but remember, brother, like it or
not, you're still kissing Death. September Young, Into the flames
Mel Bossa
#17. His system is a combination of ferocious blows, holds and throws, adapted from Japanese bayonet tactics, ju-jitsu, Chinese boxing, Sikh wrestling, French wrestling and Cornish collar-and-elbow wrestling, plus expert knowledge of hip-shooting, knife fighting and use of the Tommy gun and hand grenade.
Giles Milton
#18. She covered his hand with hers over her abdomen. His was so much bigger than hers and had probably fired guns, rifles, and god knew what else, but right here, right now, his tenderness broke down her will as sure as any grenade.
Lisa Kessler
#19. I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?
John Green
#20. I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think ...
John Green
#21. A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
Criss Jami
#22. I probably could have handled things a hell of a lot better, but what do you do when someone shoves a grenade at you, pulls the pin and tells you to make the best of the situation? Fuck if I know.
Autumn Doughton
#23. I'm a grenade, one day I'm going to explode a destroy everything in my past.
John Green
#24. Think of the phone on a date as a grenade. As soon as you press a button, your potential relationship is blown to bits.
Anonymous
#25. The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander.
Eric Ludy
#26. He looked me directly in the eye. 'So you live in America?'
'We do.' I smiled.
He stopped, opened his backpack, pulled out an empty tear gas grenade and handed it to me.
'I believe it was a present from your country.' Majid smiled. 'Tell your friends thanks. We got their grenade.
Michelle Cohen Corasanti
#27. Dealing with Prophet wasn't entirely unlike dealing with a live grenade or a Claymore mine. You had to know when to ease off the pressure and when to stay firmly planted and unmoving so you didn't die in the explosion.
S.E. Jakes
#28. I'm like a grenade made of ceramic -solid and dense and cold- but still fragile.
Jasmine Warga
#29. Our stupidity has turned the world into a hand grenade. Our greed has pulled the pin.
Grant Morrison
#30. Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete.
Rand Paul
#31. Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
Edward Abbey
#32. I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I won't quite get it anymore. Because sometimes the grenade goes off in the moment, and then it doesn't repeat down the line.
Robert Mankoff
#33. All of their faces are cluttered with the shrapnel of rebellion, as if a grenade of alienation has exploded in their midst, piercing every possible soft point of flesh-from earlobes and nostrils to eyebrows, lips, and tongues-with metal studs and rings.
Jonathan Tropper
#34. I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
Karen Duffy
#35. You mean he's not afraid of me because I'm a woman? He ought to see Tomb Raider sometime. For all he knows, I could have a nuclear bomb under my dress and a hand grenade in each cup of my bra. I call it antifeminist!
Kerstin Gier
#36. Believe it when you see it.
Believe it when a twelve-year-old rolls a grenade into the room.
Brian Turner
#37. What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.
Neill Blomkamp
#38. I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.
Kohta Hirano
#39. What kind of asshat!" Aliyev actually screamed aloud, "Makes a grenade crate! That's fucking! Flammable!
Michael Stephen Fuchs
#40. Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.
Jennifer Egan
#41. I only knew to treat the male asshole as if it had a grenade buried inside of it that could ignite a deadly explosion of anger, trauma, and sexual confusion.
Maggie Young
#43. Eating with children at a restaurant is like eating with a live grenade. It's going to explode every time. You just don't know when.
Matthew Norman
#44. I've got a phone,
answer machine, TV set,
computer, hand grenade
- everything you need
to run a business in
Los Angeles.
Ice-T
#45. Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
Brandon Boyd
#46. The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.
George Orwell
#47. He didn't care. She was a sexual hand grenade with the pin pulled out, but he could never manage to resist her. Whatever this said about him didn't matter.
Daniel Suarez
#48. As if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off.
Christopher Moore
#49. I sighed. "What's a couple of bullets to the chest when compared to a grenade? Bulletproof vests are great things. Every girl should have one."
Blain, RJ (2014-05-11). Inquisitor (Witch & Wolf Book 1) (Kindle Locations 1452-1453). Pen & Page Publishing. Kindle Edition.
R.J. Blain
#50. She picked up a handheld grenade launcher, cradling it like a baby.
Kimberly Derting
#51. You know how spooky Ashwini is. She called an hour ago to tell me she has a secret stash of handheld grenade launchers she thought I might want to know about. My response was, 'What the fuck?
Nalini Singh
#52. A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
Brendan Behan
#53. For the critic, the word 'best' is like a grenade without a pin: Toss it around too freely, and you're likely to get your hand blown off.
Terry Teachout
#54. Throw a hand grenade into a German pillbox and they come out with hands reaching for the sky and shouting "Kamerad!" Throw a hand grenade into a Japanese pillbox and they throw it right back at you. It
Holland M. Smith
#55. Magic is like pulling the pin on a grenade and then stuffing it down your pants to see what happens.
Greg Van Eekhout
#56. To think without saying is to hold an armed grenade without throwing it.
Francisco Parra
#57. Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to.
John Green
#58. The success of 'The Celebration' was like a hand grenade exploding in my face. It suddenly gave me so many opportunities to explore things I had never done before.
Thomas Vinterberg
#59. (At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris gave an over exaggerated gape.)
Holy Hand Grenade, Batman, it's a bat cave. (Chris)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#60. I keep telling everyone that I want to start a revolution but no one is taking me seriously. If I had black skin and an afro, would you take me seriously? If I was an Arab waving a hand grenade, would you take me seriously?
Madonna Ciccone
#61. Something in what Deacon said caused Aiden to string together an atrocity of f-bombs. My brows flew up. Aiden rarely cussed or lost his cool, but boy, he was a grenade whose pin had just been pulled.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#62. I took out my grenade and put my fingers inside the pin. 'Do you boys want this to be your last meal, or do you want to answer his question?
Ishmael Beah
#65. You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.
Paullina Simons
#66. He looked around the room at all the stuff. But it wasn't just stuff and it wasn't just any girl grenade that had gone off in there. It was Nikki McKinney grenade.
Tara Janzen
#67. I was fat! I was pustule-rich! I looked like a pink human grenade! When did I blossom into the irresistible little orchid that I am now? I don't know. Getting taller helps. It spreads out a bit.
Dylan Moran
#68. Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's.
The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot ...
Allen Tate
#69. Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes ... I promptly fell in love with her ...
David Crosby
#70. Silvia Dunne's voice sounded calm and even, but April knew her mother was like a grenade with the pin out - she could explode any minute.
Mia James
#71. Attempting to use a biological agent against your enemy while avoiding its effects on you is like trying to use a grenade by holding onto it and hoping all the shrapnel flies in the direction of the person you want to kill.
John Scalzi
#72. Percy hefted a bronze grenade. 'I hope you labelled these right.'
He yelled, 'Die, Romans!' and lobbed the grenade over the wall.
Rick Riordan
#73. I shot her because she had just killed my best friend and my worst enemy with a single hand -grenade.
This episode made me sorry to be alive , made me envy stones.
I would rather have been a stone at the service of the Natural Order
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#74. There are 160,000 of our men and women in Iraq that wonder whether there is going to be a hand grenade or a missile lobbed into where they are sleeping at night. Those are people who make a real sacrifice.
Mitt Romney
#75. So that's it?" I say, stunned. "You throw information into someone else's life like a grenade and you walk away before it explodes?
Jodi Picoult
#76. I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody.
Joe Jamail
#77. Patience has never been my strong suit.
I'm not exactly keen on waiting for anything.
Nor am I good at planning, for that matter.
I'm the shoot first, ask questions never type... you know, the kind to toss a grenade in a packed room to solve a personal problem?
J.M. Darhower
#78. As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew through the air and exploded.
Tom Paxton
#79. I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.
John Green
#80. EAMES: Shouldn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, Arthur-
Eames lines up a shot with a grenade launcher. Fires- the sniper EXPLODES into the air- Arthur looks at Eames.
EAMES: Shall we?
Christopher J. Nolan
#81. We require only a grenade launcher, six pounds of industrial-strength licorice, two spells of Class VIII complexity, a shipping container, a side of bacon, an automobile, several homing snails, a ladder, and two people to act as bait.
Jasper Fforde
#82. You might not be a bombshell, but you are definitely a bullet, possibly even a small grenade.
Melanie Harlow
#83. She smiled. "Oh, dear. All this and a sense of humor, too."
Apparently, no one had given him a compliment lately. He looked as if he'd been thrown a grenade. Or a wet kitten.
Tessa Dare
#84. Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests.
"You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.
Rick Riordan
#85. We had learned from the killing of a Reuters photographer on the balcony of the Palestine Hotel that a long lens could be mistaken for a rocket-propelled grenade.
Lynsey Addario
#86. A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.
Sebastian Junger
#87. I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two.
Stephen Lang
#88. No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder.
Stephen Richards
#89. I couldn't be mad at him for even a moment, and only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation ...
John Green
#90. His head .. it exploded. As if someone had scooped out his brains and put a hand grenade in his skull.
Stephen King
#91. A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'.
Mark Grace
#92. You're going to need a dann big can of big spray! Or maybe a rocket-propelled grenade. I have one in the garage, you want it?
Kevin Hearne
#93. It's not a bomb, you ignorant fuck! It's a grenade!
Abigail Roux
#94. I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.
Courtney Schafer
#95. She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.
Ann Brashares
#96. That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.
Scott Westerfeld
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