Top 24 Quotes About Griggs: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Griggs

#1. But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.

#2. What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others.
"It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say.
"Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through."
That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.

Melina Marchetta

#3. I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would never come to the
phone. What part of that gives the impression that I didn't care?
~Jonah Griggs

Melina Marchetta

#4. When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years.

Melina Marchetta

#5. His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it. -Jonah Griggs

Melina Marchetta

#6. I have an aunt and I have a Griggs and this is what it's like to have connections with people.

Melina Marchetta

#7. This is war," he say quietly.
"Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.

Melina Marchetta

#8. I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It's a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

Melina Marchetta

#9. She don't know how much I need her
She don't know I'd fall apart
Without her kiss without her touch
Without her faithful lovin' arms

Andy Griggs

#10. Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across.

Melina Marchetta

#11. The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.

Melina Marchetta

#12. Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.

Edward Howard Griggs

#13. The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.

Edmund Morgan

#14. [...] I have found that there is a rock that supports my faith. But it's a borrowed rock, kind of a sedimentary rock composed in good measure of the faith of others.

Robert W. Griggs

#15. If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.

Robyn Griggs Lawrence

#16. Peace among the nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.

Edward Howard Griggs

#17. The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

Humphry Davy

#18. Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash;
Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash;
Some rhyme to court the countra clash,
An' raise a din;
For me, an aim I never fash;
I rhyme for fun.

Robert Burns