#grand

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. ↗

— Hu Shih

#another #beauty #become #cornerstone #cultural

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#chambers #gas #gas chambers #germany #grandfathers

Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#both #breast cancer #cancer #diagnosed #grandmothers

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#like #made #sons #weren #you

Never have children, only grandchildren. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#grandchildren #never #only

Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#brightest #building #city #codes #come

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#beer #grandeur #great #great men #in my opinion

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it. ↗

— Lawrence Taylor

#fans #go #grandkids #hard #hard lesson

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#grand #important #literature #lord #lord of the rings

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#alliance #divine #does #endurance #grandeur