#grand

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

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#admire #appalling #assembly #easy #everything

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#exercise #family #grandmothers #grandparents #humor

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver. ↗

— Adele

#behind #believe #brain #deliver #difficult

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#different #grandmother #her #invention #law

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#baldness #bare #full #grandeur #mountain

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? ↗

— David Attenborough

#book #elephant #except #grandchildren #happy

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. ↗

— William Bartram

#delightful #distant #elegance #forests #grand