#rand

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#grandmother #she #stories #told #very

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#come #existence #grandchildren #human #i

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#credit #first #grandfather #group #kinds

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked. ↗

— Andy Garcia

#cared #could #cuba #elegant #farmer

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#bringing #demographics #gotten #grandparents #i

We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date, but this is not the time. You're much better off wearing clothes, shoes especially, that you've already tested. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#better #better off #brand-new #buying #clothes

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice. ↗

— Teri Garr

#advice #hard #how #i #ms

I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#any #before #bottles #brandy #double

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#behind #black #closet #did #dna

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #been #colors #diversity #else