Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zach Galifianakis

I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.

William Feather

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Mike Krzyzewski

It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.

Chris Bohjalian

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

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.

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.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

Shane Price

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

Sara Gruen

Being the survivor stinks.

Yann Martel

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

Gennifer Flowers

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived,

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

Elizabeth Edwards

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

Creed Bratton

I'm a survivalist and a survivor.

Francisco Paz

Unfortunately, there were no survivors from this accident.