Grant Quotes

Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

What rights are there for homosexuals? The only right is to be led to repentance. To live in such defilement of the body, in such dishonour, in such abomination, while all the time asking for liberties the church cannot grant, is unbelievable.

It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state.

I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant.

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.

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.

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.