Grissom Quotes

#1. Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.

William Petersen

#2. I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.

William Petersen

#3. I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.

William Petersen

#4. Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

William Petersen

#5. Grissom chose to remain completely fair and unbiased: he told every single one of them to go to hell.

Drew Karpyshyn

#6. The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.

William Petersen

#7. Right then is when I realized Day Grissom had a chunk of a doughnut stuck in his beard. I figured it'd be rude to mention it, but I couldn't help but stare. A beard is a gnarly place for a pastry to reside.

Anonymous

#8. How can we know that we have talent until our words or the manner in which we speak them moves someone?

James Grissom

#9. Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.

Katie Grissom

#10. Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams

James Grissom

#11. I was as enslaved as all the others.

Kathleen Grissom

#12. If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

Gus Grissom

#13. I had loved her as a mother, and though she had put forth her best effort to love me as a son, a difference existed after she learned the truth from Delia. Yet I did not hold her responsible; how could I blame her for an inability to love the part of me that I, too, loathed?

Kathleen Grissom

#14. There is no shame in who I am," he said. "There is only shame in how I came to be, and that is not my burden to carry.

Kathleen Grissom

#15. Pan, I said. "Do you know who can help?"
He shook his head.
"I will," I said.
"What can you do?" he asked.
"I don't know yet. This is new to me.

Kathleen Grissom

#16. in front of the embers for a long time. DORY AND I WERE SITTING together in the blue room, and while Dory fed Campbell, I held Sukey. It was an early week in December, the first

Kathleen Grissom

#17. If you're a writer, you write. If you don't, you're dead. You have no home, no reason to be offered a seat at any table, and no reason to live.

James Grissom

#18. You look at today, chil'. You say, 'Thank you, Lawd, for everythin' you gives me today.' Then you worries about the next day when the next day come.

Kathleen Grissom

#19. My grandma showed me that there is always something to learn, that everybody got something to tell you

Kathleen Grissom

#20. There are times we got to trust the Lawd. Somehow

Kathleen Grissom

#21. I pray to the emptiness that is the page," Tenn said, "and I pray to the emptiness that is my mind, and I ask that I be filled.

James Grissom

#22. How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station?

Gus Grissom

#23. We a family, carin' for each other. Family make us strong in times of trouble. We all stick together, help each other out. That the real meanin' of family. When you grow up, you take that family feelin' with you.

Kathleen Grissom

#24. There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and nowhere else can you realize so fully the majesty of our Earth and be so awed at the thought that it's only one of untold thousands of planets.

Gus Grissom

#25. All of us are seeking a home, and I don't mean where we were born, or where we now live and have things, but where we can do the big things, the right things. Where we belong, where we fit, where we're loved."--Tennessee Williams, "Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog

James Grissom

#26. But like Mama say, sometimes we got to live it out before we learn.

Kathleen Grissom

#27. When I relented and ventured forth into the healing sun, I realized how much of a recluse I had become.

Kathleen Grissom

#28. Abinia," he said, pointing toward the chickens, "you look at those birds. Some of them be brown, some of them be white and black. Do you think when they little chicks, those mamas and papas care about that?" I

Kathleen Grissom

#29. The next day she came to my room and gave me a pamphlet to read. Information in it implied that the union between married couples was, while performed by men, to be endured by women. Meanwhile,

Kathleen Grissom

#30. That some long time away. You look at today, chil'. You say, 'Thank you, Lawd, for everythin' you gives me today.' Then you worries about the next day when the next day come." I

Kathleen Grissom

#31. What the color is, who the daddy be, who the mama is don't mean nothin'. We a family, carin' for each other. Family make us strong in times of trouble. We all stick together, help each other out. That the real meanin' of family.

Kathleen Grissom

#32. We all carry burdens from our past, but it is not for others to exploit them.

Kathleen Grissom

#33. This world is not the only home. This world is for practice to get things right.

Kathleen Grissom

#34. If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.

Gus Grissom

#35. With each passing month, I was introduced to other aspects of a new and pleasant world. Yet, though most of my days were spent in happy pursuit, always, underlying, was the tenuous feeling of an uncertain future.

Kathleen Grissom

#36. Then you go ahead and cry, " Will said.

That ended my weeping. Had he asked me not to cry, I would not have been able to stop, but his permission somehow quit my tears.

Kathleen Grissom