#grand

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #been #colors #diversity #else

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #coloured #father #grandfather #i

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#grandparents #i #loved #sometimes #went

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! ↗

— Comte de Lautreamont

#arithmetic #geometry #grandiose #known #luminous

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#am #ask #boldly #boldness #faith

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cape #daughter #grandson #great #i

Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me? ↗

— Randy Moss

#me #nothing

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#children #does #fathers #grandfather #grandson

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#interior #sea #sky #soul #spectacle

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#epic #grandiose #ideal #lives #ode