Grandfather Quotes

My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.

Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died.

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'

My grandfather is hard of hearing. He needs to read lips. I don't mind him reading lips, but he uses one of those yellow highlighters.

I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.

In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.

I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words.

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

I will eat grandfather for dinner.

It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.

Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.

If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

You might be a redneck if your grandfather completely executes the pull my finger trick at the family reunion.