The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.
– Kelly Cherry
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- Grandfather : Death is nothing to be afraid of.Renee : It’s not death I’m afraid of.Grandfather: What is it, – Yvonne Wood
- Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either. – Haruki Murakami
- …if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale’s head for an afternoon. – Steven Johnson
- I didn’t find my story; it found me, as autobiography always does: finds you out in your deepest most private places. – Kelly Cherry
- His father had been in the military and so had his grandfather. It was a natural fit when Ronan and his brothers each donned a uniform of some kind. – Sara Humphreys
- My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met – Raji Singh
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- As a boy, I remember my father telling me a bedtime story about the day my grandfather was decapitated. – Justin Bienvenue
- Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body. – Suzy Kassem
- The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books. – Cristina Garca
- Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath. – Midnight Taylor
- He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own gl???, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. – William Shakespeare
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
- Because of His love, God always provides us with the perfect sketch of our destiny and true purpose for us to apply the finishing lines. – Cherry MPIO
- The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
- It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough. – Dejan Stojanovic
- The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. – Mark Twain
- When you write a story you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story. – Stephen King
- I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself. – AD Posey
- The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
- The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don’t let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. – Unarine Ramaru
- My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better. – Elle Jasper
- My grandfather once told her if you couldn’t read with cold feet, there wouldn’t be a literate soul in the state of Maine. – Marilynne Robinson
- Jinx, I know you just lost your grandfather, but you straighten out your tone right now or I will smack you one! – Kathy Bryson
- It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook – Thomas Jefferson
- Bias rules our minds and causes us to overlook the obvious. From ‘Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather’, by Robert Gately – Robert Gately
- Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be – Ta Obreht
- Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world. – Tom Spanbauer
- In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers. – Ta Obreht
- I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much. – Gertrude B Elion
- I don’t need to see the trail to know you’re at the end of it. My grandfather’s compass may not work, but mine is still true. – Diana Peterfreund
- Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I’m a grandfather. Or Dead. – Fred Chappell
- It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory. – Archibald Marwizi
- He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free. – Martin Luther
- To love,and all the heartache that weighs it down.To love,and all the heartbeats that lift it up. – Brittainy C Cherry
- If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contr – Rowena Cherry
- Sex is like the cherry on the top of a sundae, but you need to make the sundae first, if you get my drift. – Zane
- And the wind falls silent, and the birds fall silent, and the wild cherry trees no longer shiver and creek. – Daniel Arsand
- Be confident in who you are, Cherry Blossom. Confidence and an understanding of who you are is an alluring combination men won’t be able to resist. – Red Phoenix