#grand

Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#grandmother #heroes-of-olympus #humor #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #son-of-neptune

I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it. ↗

— Omar Sharif

#i #i love #idea #like #love

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. ↗

— Ralph Thomas Walker

#architects #been #book #contrary #fellow

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. ↗

— Jean Genet

#darkness #dream #dreaming #grandeur #long

It’s often said when a baby is born so is a grandparent; well, for me it turned out that when I was born it was also the birth of a Ding Dong. ↗

— Lisa A. Tortorello

#grandparents #humor #inspirational #love #family

We had our family patterns and were quite comfortable in them, which made it even more shocking when, just after his eightieth birthday, Papa began bringing up his time as a prisoner of war in Germany. Of course, I had always known that he had served in World War II and been captured, just like I had always know the stories about my grandmother and the build of their house. It's that peculiar type of family memory, where someone has obviously told you but you were too young to remember actually hearing it, so it seems like knowledge that was instilled at birth. Papa never brought it up, and my parents said they hadn't heard him mention it once in the previous fifty years. But suddenly, he was talking. ↗

— Jesse Cozean

#jesse-cozean #memoir #my-grandfather-s-war #patton #world-war-ii

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#grandiosity #imagination #imagination

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#course #family #garden #grandchildren #i

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk. ↗

— James Patterson

#buzz #cats #conversations #female #friends

I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren't the dominant fact of a particular geography. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#both #certain #clear #coastal #dominant