Grover Underwood Quotes

But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!"
Chiron and Grover glanced nervously at the sky. The clouds didn't seem to be parting around us, as Grover had promised. They were rolling straight over our valley, sealing us in like a coffin lid.
Er, Percy ... ?" Grover said. "We don't use the c-word to describe the Lord of the Sky. ~ Rick Riordan

Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm.
"It's green!" Nico said with delight. ~ Rick Riordan

The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. "Miss me?"
The satyrs fell over themselves nodding and bowing. "Oh, yes, very much, sire!"
"Well, I did not miss this place!" Dionysus snapped. "I bear bad news, my friends. Evil news. The minor gods are changing sides. Morpheus has gone over to the enemy. Hecate, Janus, and Nemesis, as well. Zeus knows how many more."
Thunder rumbled in the distance.
"Strike that," Dionysus said. "Even Zeus doesn't know. ~ Rick Riordan

Grover was almost as good as Piper McLean at procuring luxury vehicles. ~ Rick Riordan

Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes. ~ Rick Riordan

Eternity with Artemis?" He heaved a big sigh.
Thalia rolled her eyes. "You satyrs. You're all in love with Artemis. Don't you get that she'll never love you back?"
"But she's so ... into nature," Grover swooned.
"You're nuts," said Thalia.
"Nuts and berries," Grover said dreamily. "Yeah. ~ Rick Riordan

Grover started to sniffle and I figured if I didn't cheer him up he'd either start bawling or chewing up my mattress. He tends to eat household objects whenever he gets upset. ~ Rick Riordan

Grover, stop eating your seat belt. You're setting a bad example. ~ Rick Riordan

You're a stalker with hooves."
"I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing. ~ Rick Riordan

Remake the wild, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. You cannot wait for anyone else, even a god, to do that for you. ~ Rick Riordan

You're Dionysus," I said. "The god of wine."
Mr. D rolled his eyes. "What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say 'Well duh!'?"
Y-yes, Mr. D."
Then, well, duh! Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?"
You're a god."
Yes, child."
A god. You. ~ Rick Riordan

He gave me the brochure. It was about the Hunters of Artemis. The front read, A WISE CHOICE FOR YOUR FUTURE! Inside were pictures of young maidens doing hunter stuff, chasing monsters, shooting bows. There were captions like: HEALTH BENEFITS: IMMORTALITY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU! and A BOY-FREE TOMORROW!
"I found that in Annabeth's backpack," Grover said.
I stared at him. "I don't understand."
"Well, it seems to me ... maybe Annabeth was thinking about joining."
I'd like to say I took the news well.
The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time. ~ Rick Riordan

Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian."
You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans," I reminded him.
Those are vegetables. ~ Rick Riordan

Percy," Grover said, "the gods really don't appreciate people sitting in their thrones. I mean like turn-you-into-a-pile-of-ashes don't appreciate it. ~ Rick Riordan

Satyrs aren't dryads, but we have roots, too. Camp Half Blood is mine. ~ Rick Riordan

I'd like to say I took the news well.
The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time.
Percy Jackson ~ Rick Riordan

Almost everything strange washes up near Miami. ~ Rick Riordan

Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever. ~ Rick Riordan

We've got to run," I said. "I don't suppose you mean away," Grover murmured hopefully. ~ Rick Riordan

Hoover Dam," Thalia said. "It's huge."
We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of concrete that loomed between the cliffs. People were walking along the top of the dam. They were so tiny they looked like fleas.
The naiads had left with a lot of grumbling - not in words I could understand, but it was obvious they hated this dam blocking up their nice river. Our canoes floated back downstream, swirling in the wake from the dam's discharge vents.
"Seven hundred feet tall," I said. "Built in the 1930s."
"Five million cubic acres of water," Thalia said.
Graver sighed. "Largest construction project in the United States."
Zoe stared at us. "How do you know all that?"
"Annabeth," I said. "She liked architecture."
"She was nuts about monuments," Thalia said.
"Spouted facts all the time." Grover sniffled. "So annoying."
"I wish she were here," I said. ~ Rick Riordan

If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? ~ Rick Riordan

Grover!" I yelled up. "You can drop me now, but don't worry. I have a - "
Grover dropped me.
Honestly, what sort of protector just drops you into a fire when you tell him it's okay to drop you into a fire? ~ Rick Riordan

Dancing?' Annabeth asked.
Thalia nodded. She cocked her ear to the music and made a face. 'Ugh. Who chose Jesse McCartney?'
Grover looked hurt. 'I did. ~ Rick Riordan

For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered is grief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne

I ask my father to read an article about male entitlement and emotional labor.
"Can you just tell me what it says?" he says. ~ Martha Grover

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. ~ Grover Cleveland

You can hold any girl that you like
Fall in love when its easy at night
But you wake up wondering why
She aint ever something better
When youre lost and youve run out of road
Find what I already know
In the end close is all there is
But you wont find this ~ Carrie Underwood

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service. ~ Grover Cleveland

I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college. ~ Carrie Underwood

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio. ~ Carrie Underwood

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next. ~ Carrie Underwood

I've got to hit the bottom of this weird-ass rabbit hole anytime now, right? ~ Michael R. Underwood

I love my kids so much. They teach me something every day. It always brings richness to my work, and even more in life. I feel lucky to be able to do both. ~ Blair Underwood

I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed. ~ Grover Furr

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters. ~ Carrie Underwood

I'm not worried. I'm just so grateful to be in the position that I'm in. I'm just going with the flow right now, and I think my album will come together quite nicely because I think everybody is on the same page. ~ Carrie Underwood

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries. ~ Grover Norquist

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey. ~ Kevin Spacey

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast. ~ Carrie Underwood

The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it. ~ Blair Underwood

It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory. ~ Grover Cleveland

Beauty, the smile of God, Music, His voice. ~ Robert Underwood Johnson

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind. ~ Grover Cleveland

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. ~ Grover Norquist

I felt myself being blown about in a different kind of storm, my landing much more uncertain than those delicate flakes falling from the sky. ~ Bobby Underwood

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode. ~ Blair Underwood

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. ~ Grover Cleveland

I've always loathed the necessity of sleep. Like death, it puts even the most powerful men on their backs. ~ Frank Underwood

You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like. ~ Carrie Underwood

Blood trickled from the corner of her (Annabeth) mouth. She croaked, "Family, Luke. You promised."
Luke stared at the knife in Annabeth's hand, the blood on her face. "Promise." Then he gasped like he couldn't get air. "Annabeth . . ." But it wasn't the Titan's voice. It was Luke's. He stumbled forward like he couldn't control his own body. "You're bleeding. . . ." He gasped again."He's changing. Help. He's . . . he's almost ready. He won't need my body anymore. Please - "
"The knife, Percy," Annabeth muttered. Her breath was shallow. "Hero . . . cursed blade . . ."
Luke turned and collapsed, clutching his ruined hands."Please, Percy . . ."
Luke seemed to know what I was thinking. He moistened his lips. "You can't . . . can't do it yourself. He'll break my control. He'll defend himself. Only my hand. I know where. I can . . . can keep him controlled."
I raised the knife to strike. Then I looked at Annabeth, at Grover. And I finally understood what she'd been trying to tell me. You are not the hero, Rachel had said. It will affect what you do. The line from the great prophecy echoed in my head: A hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap. My whole world tipped upside down,and I gave the knife to Luke.I watched as Luke grasped the hilt he stabbed himself ~ Rick Riordan

We can't know everything," I said quietly. "Sometimes we have to write our own future. ~ Denise Grover Swank

What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something? ~ Grover Cleveland

We're only gonna talk to him," I said for what had to be the hundredth time as I pulled my truck up to the curb. But Neely Kate seemed exceptionally bloodthirsty, and truth be told, I didn't trust her all that much to behave. ~ Denise Grover Swank

The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race. ~ Grover Cleveland

To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you. ~ Blair Underwood

I do not like people touching my underwear. That's just weird! I travel with a washer and dryer, and I like cooking on the bus, too. ~ Carrie Underwood

Another tear rolled slowly down her cheek, like liquid pain escaping from her broken heart. ~ Bobby Underwood

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways. ~ Grover Norquist

Singing is just a feeling set to music. ~ Carrie Underwood

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting. ~ Grover Cleveland

I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good. ~ Rogers Hornsby