#grand

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#errors #expert #fallacy #grand #person

Beijing's Olympics were very grand - they were trying to throw a party for the world, but the hosts didn't enjoy it. The government didn't care about people's feelings because it was trying to create an image. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#because #beijing #care #create #enjoy

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents. ↗

— Jack White

#friends #grandparents #had #high #high school

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#different #doing #expression #give #good

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive. ↗

— Wayne Wonder

#be careful #careful #friends #go #grandmother

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons. ↗

— Bern Williams

#canyons #grand #keep #life #peaks

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#being #clothes #going #grandmother #hang

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#grandchildren #love #art

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren. ↗

— Brock Yates

#four #grandchildren #grown #i #tiny

I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#life #outlook #perspective #richelle #richelle-goodrich