Famous quotes containing the words grand, fourth and/or generation:
“You have a grand gift of silence, Watson, said he, it makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930)
“I asked my mother for fifty cents
To see the elephant jump the fence.
He jumped so high he reached the sky,
And didnt get back till the Fourth of July.”
—Unknown. I Asked My Mother (l. 14)
“The language of the younger generation ... has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.”
—Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916)
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