#grand

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#grandly #i #intention #live #mean

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#decorative #grandfather #musician #painter

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. ↗

— Maya Lin

#constitutions #draft #fairly #father #first

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#growing #how #matter #own #tall

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do! ↗

— Jane Taylor

#defined #few #grand #how #justly

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cancer #death #even #evolved #grandmother

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#artist #destiny #grand #mournful #yet

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. ↗

— Eric Liu

#air force #chinese #during #force #general

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits. ↗

— Eric Liu

#bad habits #boomers #gesture #going #grand

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#country #during #empty #family #few