#grand

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

— Abraham Lincoln

#growing #how #matter #own #tall

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

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#author #challenge #corners #critics #every

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#back #bridle #broke #brought #bullet

I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me. ↗

— George Lopez

#bit #both #childhood #different #difficult

So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write. ↗

— George Lopez

#beach #day #desk #eight #grandmother

Who wants to be married to a grandfather? ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#married #wants #who