“The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.”
John Wesley Powell
“We now have some unrivaled talent and a young, but clearly large, squad,”
Daniel Levy
“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
“His campaign sounded a note of the bogusly grand. Hart is Kennedy typed on the eighth carbon.”
Lance Morrow
“The less America looks abroad, the grander its promise”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.”
Charles Caleb Colton