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Clan Grant Society of the United Kingdom - History of the Clan Grant. Information on the Clan Grant Society. Membership news and application. Events.

The Origin of Clan Grant - This site is a discussion of the early beginnings of Clan Grant, and why it cannot have French origins. This site is important to Clan Grant in that the author was able to ultimately show, through the discovery of supporting documentation in the United States, Norway, and Scotland, that Clan Grant had Viking origins.

Grant Genealogy - Emphasis on NC, TN and VA - Marty Grant's genealogy web site at martygrant.com. Marty has been assembling a genealogy of all the Grant's in the southern United States prior to 1860, with a major emphasis on those in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Chris Pratt - The home page of Clan Grant clansman Christopher Pratt. He is intensely proud of his heritage with Scotland and Clan Grant and is the Games Commissioner for Clan Grant in Massachusetts.

Glenfiddich - In the autumn of 1886, William Grant purchased some land in the valley of the River Fiddich, in Speyside, deep in the heart of Grant territory in the Scottish Highlands. Here, he and his family built The Glenfiddich Distillery with their own hands, labouring long and hard to make an ambitious dream reality. At last, on Christmas Day 1887, the very first Glenfiddich spirit ran from the stills.

Don Grant - The personal site of Don Grant, editor of the Clan Grant UK newsletter, "StandFast".

Clan Grant Society - USA - The United States Society of Clan Grant. Includes clan history, US events and news, membership, bulletin board - Septs of Clan Grant include: Allan, Bisset, Bowie, Cairns, Gilroy, MacIlroy, MacAllan, MacKerron, MacKiaran, Pratt, Suttie, MacSwain, and variations of the names listed above.

John More Association - Descendants of John More of Drumcork in. These people have recently been accepted by Lord Stathspey, Chief of the Grants.

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(James Madison) Grant Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright Grant The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Grant It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Grant The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grant "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Grant I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Grant "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Grant "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Grant "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Grant When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm Grant Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Grant "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Grant Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Grant "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Grant Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Grant "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken Grant "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Grant It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Grant When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Grant Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. 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