#grand

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#children #glory #grandeur #just #leaves

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand. ↗

— Benny Hill

#like #pianos #upright

It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like. ↗

— Jack Schmitt

#canyon #child #describe #feel #first

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#day #earn #enough #grand #hope

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else. ↗

— William Shatner

#else #everything #grandchildren #horses #kids

The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come. ↗

— Joe Manchin III

#children #come #completed #days #during

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#atheist #believes #catholicism #grandeur #great

There's no doubt in my mind that I've found out how to begin at this age to say sth in my own voice and that interests me so that I can go ahead without any : ) praise ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#age

Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#children #country #crime #every #get

He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist.It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must ne found either in action, of some immensely solid kind,on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts. ↗

— Henry James

#grand-designs #purpose-of-life #reformer #art