#gr

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#along #cares #carries #civilization #complete

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. ↗

— John Updike

#earth #grace #life #rain #sky

Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#apples #busy #day #energy #fruit

I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#choir #crazy #drama #everybody #everything

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

— Barry Unsworth

#figures #generation #grand #heroes #history

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia. ↗

— Cher

#being #death #fat #feel #girl

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#aide #association #because #becoming #being

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#because #before #bond #destroyed #faith

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#america #been #came #crash #farms

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#freddie #freddie mercury #growing #growing up #his