Quotes About Grenades

#1. Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs.

Rick Riordan

#2. I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

Pat Roberts

#3. Then throughout the day, mankind played with grenades...Cold hearted world!

Pantera

#4. Neither of them was wearing a face shield. That put grenades out until I could get them to move out of the blast radius, since aerosolized zombie will kill you just as sure as the clawing, biting kind.

Mira Grant

#5. .....it's hard to describe a psychosoteric battle at close quarters..... Think of those tennis-ball firing machines, but loaded with hand-grenades trapped in a shipping container, on a ship caught in a force-ten gale.

David Mitchell

#6. For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.

Clare Mulley

#7. Well, that's not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.

Seanan McGuire

#8. When I asked him, fifty-three years after the event, "Mr. Lucas, why did you jump on those grenades?" he did not hesitate with his answer: "To save my buddies.

James D. Bradley

#9. Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son.
(to Kevin Keegan)

Bill Shankly

#10. Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemon grenades?

Melissa De La Cruz

#11. We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades - Frances Brown

Seanan McGuire

#12. This story never really had a point. It's just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades (and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.

Pete Wentz

#13. Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#14. That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

Scott Westerfeld

#15. Back around the counter to fetch my rifle. Rifle, sidearm, knife, a couple of flash grenades. And one more thing, the most essential weapon in my arsenal: a heart full of rage.

Rick Yancey

#16. 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

#17. I peeked my head into the closet, looking for a trap door, hand grenades, the wardrobe to Narnia - anything that might help.

Mark Tufo

#18. There's nothing wrong with making a last stand. Just make sure you bring enough grenades to share with the entire class. - Alice Healy

Seanan McGuire

#19. Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

Ralph Abernathy

#20. Is that why you have hand grenades and a garrote in your nightstand?"
"They're sleep aids.

Janet Evanovich

#21. Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Frank Robinson

#22. I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John)
I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)

Laurell K. Hamilton

#23. We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

George Carey

#24. I figured in the fuel, the guns, two rifles, the shotgun, the handguns, four grenades. Period. Two quarts of oil. I scratched a nub of pencil

Peter Heller

#25. Grandma Alice insists he's alive, and my mother raised me never to contradict anyone who regularly carries grenades).

Seanan McGuire

#26. Most fathers don't show up with hand grenades and bowie knives."
"They should be ashamed of themselves," Jake said.

Janet Evanovich

#27. Flash grenades - a weapon used in China. Ingrid shivered as Cy's comments suddenly made sense. Chinatown was so close. She was so close to the Chinese, to Lee and Jiao. So close, and so oblivious. Despite

Beth Cato

#28. Almost only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes.

Karen Marie Moning

#29. Will fired the shoes like two orange grenades into the alley, pushed her outside and offered in parting, If you're in heat, Lula, go yowl beneath somebody else's window!

LaVyrle Spencer

#30. Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#31. Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

Mario Puzo

#32. I could report the rest of the conversation, but it's just more of the same, two people whose love became toxic, lobbing regret grenades at each other.

Jonathan Tropper

#33. It's not all Hash Pipes and Hand-grenades

David Usher

#34. The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.

David Mitchell

#35. If the submarines, the aerial torpedoes, the poison gas, the liquid fire, the long-distance guns, the hand grenades, the trench mortars, and all the other things injure without killing them, they are sent back again and again after being patched up until they are killed.

Evadne Price

#36. Sure we could replace war with paintball battles. But it would escalate to paint grenades, paint bombs, weapons of mass paint. I don't want to live in a world where my kids have to worry about what color they will be in the morning.

Dan Florence

#37. Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

Erich Maria Remarque

#38. Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.

Rick Riordan

#39. She gestured to the bag. "What have you got in there?"
"Nothing much. Some golfballs, a handful of tees, a Glock, extra ammo, two hand grenades, a tear gas canister, a knife, Tums, clean socks, flares, and some Ensure chocolate shakes."
"You took all of that with you to play golf?

Janet Evanovich

#40. What had actually been in Valera's haversack: not a woman's vulva but grenades, a gas mask, a gun that constantly jammed.

Rachel Kushner

#41. Over the past 30 years, hand grenades, tanks, fighter jets, missiles, helicopters and assault rifles have replaced traditional floral patterns in rug making and other textiles. Depicting these realities of war has helped the Afghan people to survive during times of conflict.

Henri Cole

#42. Clowns, hoboes, gypsies, and furry animals of all kinds scattered madly and dived for cover. No doubt they thought I'd finally lost it and was planning to lob more grenades.

Donna Andrews

#43. If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

Paul Fussell

#44. My goodness, they were like hand grenades of testosterone rolling in the door, sucking all the air out of the room.

Jennifer Bernard

#45. Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

Alva Myrdal

#46. He was carrying bulky loot; I could see it under his zipped-up sweater. And when I unzipped it with a one-handed rip, I saw that he was wearing a bandolier loaded with grenades. I have no doubt that a wide, manic smile spread across my pretty little face.

Cherie Priest

#47. Two live grenades that nearly detonated each other. Wave the white flag and count your dead. The war is over. Nurse the wounded and heal your cuts. Write down the memories and tell the tales in later years when you can see the good with the bad.

Kate Monahan

#48. A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like throwing grenades and pulling out all kinds of crazy knackery, it was out of control. Whatever. As if the story, if big enough, reflected glory on the teller.

China Mieville

#49. This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I'm ready for war.

Kevin Garnett

#50. I don't think Bible verses were meant to be thrown like grenades at each other. They were meant for us to use to point each other toward love and grace and invite us into something much bigger.

Bob Goff

#51. It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Yann Martel

#52. Too bad Justice refused to let him toss live grenades to the side of the course. That would add motivation. He knew from personal experience. His personal best time for a quarter-mile run had been in Africa - while being chased by an angry rhino. Imminent death made for a great workout.

Susan Mallery

#53. Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

John Leonard

#54. It is as if families on the run are shattered by something other than just grenades. The flight and fear tears us apart and those parts land in all kinds of places - we don't even know where. But we always try to find them afterwards.

Henning Mankell

#55. Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.

Barbara Johnson

#56. I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

Stephen Bayley

#57. You brought me grenades. You are officially the best girlfriend ever.

Rachel Caine

#58. I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

Nadine Labaki

#59. We can help our nation quite a bit if we refrain from getting into our respective corners and throwing hand grenades at each other, and instead try to understand the other's viewpoint, reject the stifling of political correctness, and engage in intelligent civil discussion.

Ben Carson

#60. Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Neil Gaiman

#61. Zircoff," I said, "put the tomatoes away."
"Piss," he said, "I wish they were hand grenades.

Charles Bukowski

#62. Note to self, Leo thought groggily. Do not leave boxes of magic grenades where dwarfs can reach them.

Rick Riordan

#63. You know what, honey? You're right. It's time to change my approach. Can you give me one of those nice concussion grenades?

Seanan McGuire

#64. (Zarek slammed his combined fists down across Thanatos's back.)
If anyone has any suggestions on how to kill this guy, I'm open to it. (Zarek)
I'm out of dynamite. You got any grenades? (Jess)
Not on me. (Zarek)
Say die, Dark-Hunter. (Thanatos)
Fine. Die, why don't you? (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#65. She can shoot like a dream and she carries tiny grenades in her top, a bit of my addled mind thought. I think I might be in love.

Brandon Sanderson

#66. Don't worry, Jet. Just as long as we don't get into any situations that require grenades, we'll be fine." Indy said this like she wasn't joking.

Kristen Ashley