My Grandma Once Told Me Quotes

#1. We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Rita Hayworth

#2. Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

Erma Bombeck

#3. Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

Noel Tichy

#4. Everyone loves New York City for all these different reasons. The culture. The mix of people. The pace. The food. But for me, it's like one epic Easter egg hunt. You're always finding these little surprises around every corner.

Gayle Forman

#5. Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

Ellen Hopkins

#6. Slutiness is a very underrated quality in a girl.

Daniel Tosh

#7. That's the way it is with bullies, Grandma told me once. You give them an inch and they'll run you through with a knife.

Benjamin X. Wretlind

#8. Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

Bill Moyers

#9. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

Marcel Proust

#10. If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

Richard Russo

#11. But out of this group of "born-again Christians," researchers found that their beliefs and lifestyles are virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world around them.

David Platt

#12. If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.

Nigel Hamilton

#13. My grandma had told me once you couldn't make someone love you or even like you, but you could sure as hell make someone put up with you.

Mariana Zapata

#14. Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?

Lester Piggott

#15. The headwaiter said something to her in the foyer, and she told him, "I'm looking for somebody," and went on to the doorway. She stood in the doorway, looking over the people at the tables in the room where a piano played.

Patricia Highsmith

#16. Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

Gottfried Leibniz

#17. Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Walter Lippmann

#19. I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

Anjelica Huston