Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caroline Kennedy

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Antony Sher

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

William Shakespeare

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

Jan Karon

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Billy Crystal

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

So many things we love are you!

Anne Lamott

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Francisco Paz

Unfortunately, there were no survivors from this accident.

Shane Price

It is important to us to say to victims and survivors of gunshots and violence that we are trying to do something.

Creed Bratton

I'm a survivalist and a survivor.

Elizabeth Edwards

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

Aaliyah

I’m a survivor, and I can handle anything. I’m very confident about that.

Courtney Love

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Kurt Vonnegut

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

Natalie Wood

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.