What is grand?

Famous quotes containing the word grand:

    “The grand Perhaps! We look on helplessly,
    There the old misgivings, crooked questions are.”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    “A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)