Quotes About Grand

There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what I was personally missing was grand, classic, true-north hero. Pure and simple emotion, and also aiming for big time emotion, like love story as well, in a very sincere way. Like 'Superman: The Movie' had done for me.

The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.

To many Native American tribes the Grand Canyon is a sacred place: site of numerous origin myths from the Havasupai to the Zuni; hushed repose of the Hopi dead. If I were forced to choose a religion, that's the kind of religion I could go for. The Grand Canyon confers stature on a religion, outclassing the petty smallness of the Abrahamics, the three squabbling cults which, through historical accident, still afflict the world.

I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

That's the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.

We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra.

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.

What kind of one-night stand takes your car the next morning? It's called the walk of shame, not grand theft auto.

I live larger than life.

Although the Bible is a library of books, it is also "the book." It is a story, a grand story, of God's love for His people, and the price He was willing to pay to restore us into perfect fellowship with Him.

The excitement is often grand, as is the reason least, in the beginning of the attack.

Don't say things you'll regret later, Drew. Our whole world is topsy-turvy right now. But that's no reason to make a grand gesture. I'm here because I want to be. For now. Let's leave it at that.

There have been plenty of very bare hotels with couples humping next door. I don't stay in very grand hotels.

I have a grand piano in my living room, can you imagine the absurdity? I don't even play. Perhaps they know I might entertain dear Noël." She spoke of her friend Noël Coward.

All right, cupcakes. You are about to see the Grand Canyon. Try not to break it. The skywalk can hold the weight of seventy jumbo jets, to you featherweights should be safe out there. If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.