My Grandfather Quotes

My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies.

A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

Sometimes I wonder what my grandfather would think of what I do, he spent his whole life in the kebab business, was buried with all his equipment, probably turning in his grave.

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.

My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland.

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.

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather.

My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.

Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.

Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.

I'm a grandfather now.

I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.

My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

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.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

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.

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

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.

Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.