Over the river and through the wood To grandfather's house…

We moved to South Central Iowa to the farm where my dad had grown up, where my grandfather had grown up. The house was…

— Katie Porter

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately…

— William Least Heat-Moon

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust…

— Brett Ratner

“Why do these big old country houses always have family portraits in the dining room? Do you really want to eat with someone's gloomy…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to…

— Ashton Holmes

When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew…

— Atul Gawande

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

— Robert Bly

“Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to…

— Michael Chabon

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice.…

— George Papandreou

“The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.”

— Cristina García

I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his…

— King Hussein I

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

— Lorine Niedecker

“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made…

— Wendell Berry

Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble…

— Alice Sebold

I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the…

— Karen Hawkins