Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dane Cook

My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.

David Ebershoff

Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.

Anna Quindlen

One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word "elderly" in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print.

Alfonso Cuaron

The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.

Angela Carter

Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

Angela Carter

I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.

Anthony Bourdain

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

Anthony Bourdain

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

Andy Rooney

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

Andy Rooney

I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

Goran Ivanisevic

He is strong in the head. You can't win a junior Grand Slam and knock out the world's No. 25 player in your first senior tournament if you're not strong in the head.

We are going to open up Monday at 7 a.m. and we are going to stay open until 12 p.m. Tuesday. After that, we are going to reopen Wednesday at 7 a.m. and have our grand opening just as we had planned and stay open for 24 hours.

Charles Darwin

There is Grandeur in this view of life,

Globally, we have a grand total of zero reports of damage.

John Cornyn

I wouldn't want to speculate as to what's happened or not going to happen with regard to the grand jury, ... I simply don't know. In fact, I would suggest that none of us know, since it's supposed to be a confidential proceeding, by law.

I worked with Michelle Yeoh on my last film, 'Far North,' and her partner is Jean Todt; at the time, he ran Ferrari. So I went as a VIP to the British grand prix.

The real question is why the archdiocese refuses to turn over grand jury-subpoenaed personnel records to prosecutors,

Bailey Chase

I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

Alison Krauss

I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.

The grand slam, up 7-1, make the kid hit the ball, and he did. I think that would have been out of most parks.

Bob Woodward

The grand jury was going and reporters were being jailed, and I hunkered down more than I usually do,

Bob Woodward

The grand jury was going, and reporters were being jailed, and I hunkered down more than I usually do,

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

We have 16 players who are the No. 1 player in their country. The cutoff to get into (the tournament) was No. 68 (in the ATP rankings). No tournament outside of a Grand Slam has that kind of quality and depth.

Maria Sharapova

But my most successful year was last year because I won my first grand slam at Wimbledon.

Rahm Emanuel

The president wants to get the information that the grand jury needs,

Alex Rodriguez

To me that was like hitting a walk-off grand slam. That was fun. With Mo being out today that was a huge win for us.

When my husband retired, my son took over. My son and grandson are still growing sugar beets. I even have a great grandson who has started farming.

Kurt Vonnegut

Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.

Kurt Vonnegut

I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

Otherwise nothing will happen (with a grand coalition),

My return is 70 percent higher in Grand Central.

Buck Showalter

I was happy with the outing, as I was with his last one. We had opportunities to make the grand slam not matter.