Grandfather Quotes

I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

— R. Kelly

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

— Chuck Berry

“My grandfather was a closet feminist. So,”

— Padma Lakshmi

My grandfather and I were very close.

— Tea Obreht

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

— Loretta Lynn

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

— Billy Ray Cyrus

Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

— Gary Snyder

I'm not that hands-on as a grandfather.

— Alan Sugar

My grandfather, father, and uncle were chefs, and my other uncle was a butcher.

— Marco Pierre White

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

— Bill Cosby

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

— Gene Perret

Grandfather informs me that is not possible.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.

— Johanna Spyri

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

— John F. Kennedy

Curtis Axel has more talent than his grandfather and his father.

— Paul Heyman

My grandfather's death was really hard to deal with.

— Casey Eastham

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

— Richard Bowes

If the Kennedys had been barred from entering America after fleeing Ireland during the famine, my grandfather never would have been president.

— Jack Schlossberg

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

— Groucho Marx

Your grandfather's coffin is heavier than you expect. Your father's coffin is heavier than you can bear.

— Todd Lowe

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in…

— Gore Vidal

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…

— Jennifer Grant

My grandfather passed away in 1946, too early to see his dream of an independent India being realized.

— Rohini Nilekani

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

— John Bunyan

Without question, my grandfather's example of public service throughout his life inspired Dad later to run for office himself. Wherever he went,…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception…

— Kary Mullis

People at present think that five sons are not too many and each son has five sons also, and before the death…

— Han Fei

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…

— Kary Mullis

“Sometimes my grandfather was awake, and would sit with me while I looked up at the stars, needing to see something fixed…

— Morgan Matson

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had…

— Andy Garcia

My grandfather was a prominent executive at Chevron (oil), and of course my father is a fairly radical and progressive environmentalist. But…

— James Redford

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male…

— Catherine Tate

The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough.…

— Cornel West

Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find…

— Ray Bradbury

“Po?” His voice rasped with the effort of speaking. “Po.” He struggled to clear his throat and then lay still for a…

— Kristin Cashore

“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair…

— Wendell Berry

“One hundred years ago my great-grandfather thought women shouldn't vote. He was absolutely certain about that, and I'm absolute certain he was…

— Tony Jones

“Working tirelessly on that isolated farm, my grandfather taught me that we should accept and be grateful for what we have—whether it…

— Anonymous

This grandson of an Irish immigrant, after whom I was named, Richard Michael Cawley is my grandfather. I was right that -…

— Mike Pence

“But I feel its beauty here and I know there is not a lovelier, more precious child in this world than you…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon