Grandfather Quotes

During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Even today a lot of people know me because of my grandfather.

[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some horrific things.

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.

My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

We have started calling him grandfather.

There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

Did your great-grandfather have any children?