Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorenzo Snow

This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.

Martina Hingis

I told her that if you played like that all the time, she would have won a Grand Slam already.

Everything about this show is on such a large grandiose scale. It's the largest thing that's ever come to Rochester.

David Keene

The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.

Brandon Siler

You go out of here 9-3 and the seniors know that they started something grand here at the University of Florida. Next year, we take it to the next level hopefully, only winning championships.

Julie Roberts

To be honest, we're all just happy to be playing in the grand final,

Jon Mead

That's when I first started getting sore but I didn't go for treatments there. But when we were in Newfoundland (for a Grand Slam event), I was worried that I wouldn't be able to play in Regina.

What Jon told us was to think about hiring multiple talents, not to try and hit a grand slam,

We were on a grand adventure, not knowing what, exactly, to expect. It was a mess of uncertainty.

Ron Dennis

The whole team, including the drivers, psychologically over-reacted to the first grand prix and the qualifying.

The witnesses who testified before the grand jury were never subjected to cross-examination or impeachment by the defense,

It would be very disappointed if tummy taps or whacks in the guts prevented players from playing in grand finals.

Maria Sharapova

It was very difficult, I've played Nadia in the last two Grand Slams in the quarter-finals as well and we've had such tough matches and I've been able to pull through so I'm very happy.

Steven R. McQueen

I started watching movies my grandpa did, and I saw what an impact they made on the world. That's when I said, 'Hey, I want to do that too.'

Is she ready to win? No. Is she ready to start her Busch Grand National career? Absolutely.

Jeffrey Jones

I understand they are still investigating, and the (federal) grand jury is still looking at the matter.

Cassandra Clare

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.

Mo Rocca

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

Kirsten Gillibrand

I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.

Muhammad Yunus

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Muddy Waters

My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.

Muhammad Ali

Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.

Marian Seldes

My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.

Nathan Myhrvold

With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

Nathan Myhrvold

Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

Jay Leno

Obama called on Americans to have more grandchildren. Probably so there's more of them to pay off our debt.

Camryn Manheim

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it

James Earl Jones

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

James Earl Jones

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

James Earl Jones

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

James Ellroy

In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics of victimization. Reparation wasn't in the language. Nobody thought about giving the great grandchildren of black slaves so much as $1.98. And all of a sudden the bombs hit, interventionism versus isolationism became a dead issue, and it was us-versus-them in a heartbeat.

Pam Grier

Some day I want to play a grandmother. And a foxy one at that!