“Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather. — John Howard Copy Share Image
My grandfather has a big influence on me; without him, I wouldn't be where I am now. — Angelique Kerber Copy Share Image
My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in… — David Einhorn Copy Share Image
We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a builder. So as a kid I hung out with him on building sites during the school holidays -… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
My grandfather, Harry, died when my dad was in his early 20s, so I never met him. Amazingly, he was 6ft tall.… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well. — Neil Nitin Mukesh Copy Share Image
I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
My grandmother on my father's side, a nightclub singer, was a Jewish refugee from Prussia who ended up in Jerusalem, where she… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
“Next to her, my grandfather softly droops under the grand dome above us, painted by some hideously famous artist centuries ago, as… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
Your grandfather is and will always be your hero, your inspiration. He fought in World War II, came home to Little Rock,… — David Robinson Copy Share Image
Grandad has a long and earnest conversation with his grandchild. He says, you are noisy and wiggly and will be sent back… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
After miraculously surviving two heart surgeries, pneumonia and a mild stroke, at 82 my grandfather was no longer able to care for… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. He… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even… — Alvin Francis Poussaint Copy Share Image
