We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Carl Sandburg

We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.
Jackie Stewart

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Clarence Day

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
Ben Bradlee

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
Charles Keating

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.
Donald Judd

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Terence

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
Alfred de Vigny

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!
Ernest Poole

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.
Leslie Easterbrook

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
Vivien Leigh

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
Bob Woodward

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.
Morley Safer

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.
Mary Pierce

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis

Yes, I'm afraid the life over here is very different from N.Z. but oh boy it's a grand life.
Jack Lovelock

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.
Irving Babbitt