Grant Quotes

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. (Dave Barry)
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. View quote
William Henry Harrison
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish. View quote
Michelangelo
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. View quote
Cary Grant
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. View quote
Chester W. Nimitz
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say 'This is my country.' View quote
Benjamin Franklin
We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time. View quote
David Dinkins
So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare. (David Dinkins)
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. View quote
William Butler Yeats
As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day. View quote
J. M. Coetzee
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. View quote
John L. Lewis
It has always been the particular forte of German leadership to grant wide scope to the self-dependence of subordinate commanders - to allot them tasks which leave the method of execution to the discretion of the individual. From time immemorial - certainly since the elder Moltke's day - this principle has distinguished Germany's military leadership from that of other armies. View quote
Erich von Manstein
I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one. View quote
J. D. Salinger
I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman. View quote
Tim Roth
Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be. View quote
Fay Wray
Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant. (Aaron Eckhart)
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death. View quote
Donald Cargill
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. View quote
Venerable Bede
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
An invention is something that was "impossible” up to then-that's why governments grant patents. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein