Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adora Svitak

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

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.

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

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.

Dave Grohl

People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen.

Maria Sharapova

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

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,

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?'

My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts.

Clarence Thomas

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

Colin Firth

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

Cornelia Funke

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

Conan O'Brien

President Obama says he will not support a healthcare plan where the government gets to decide whether to, quote, 'pull the plug on Grandma.' Apparently, Obama's plan calls for the much quicker pillow option.

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.

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.'