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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner...

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

Quote by Edward Abbey about things

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about style, being

Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.

Quote by Sebastian Bach about rocks

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about fight, children, man

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural...

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, miracle, help, beauty, nature, world

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with...

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

Quote by Ansel Adams about philosophy, human imperfections, spirit, things, life

My grandmother was very influential in my life. She was...

My grandmother was very influential in my life. She was very religious and very systematic about her religion.

Quote by Erykah Badu about religion, life

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Quote by John Adams about miracle, earth

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are...

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Quote by Joseph Addison about hope, happiness, love, life

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

Quote by Warren Beatty about motivation, actors, children, being

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

Quote by Warren Beatty about teachers, mother, money

My grandmother was born in Leeds - I was happy to be...

My grandmother was born in Leeds - I was happy to be accepted here. The British invasion completely won me over.

Quote by Michael Bolton about happiness

I did have an Irish grandmother whom no one or nothing...

I did have an Irish grandmother whom no one or nothing could put down.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about nothing

I have been a grandmother since I was 39.

I have been a grandmother since I was 39.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or...

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell

If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping...

If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, life, sin

There are only two families in the world, my old...

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about old, olderness, world

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Quote by Agatha Christie about life, sadness, things

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Quote by Agatha Christie about opinion, sadness, things

My mother couldn't afford to raise me, but then she had my little brother, so when we moved back to Michigan, we were just staying wherever we could, with my grandmother or whatever family would put us up.

Quote by Eminem about family, mother

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