Grandfather Quotes · Page 4

My grandfather was a big influence on me, but I lost him when I was a kid.

— Rob Morgan

I have an older brother who's an actor and a grandfather who was an actor.

— Ben Lloyd-Hughes

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

— William Shakespeare

I come from a wrestling background - my father and grandfather were into wrestling.

— Geeta Phogat

I remember as a kid watching that movie - 'Cool Hand Luke' - with my grandfather.

— Joey Chestnut

It's cool hearing people doing my grandfather's music.

— Skip Marley

My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.

— Trinny Woodall

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

— Muhammad Ali

My grandfather had Alzheimer's. He would eat everything and anything that was around; then he wouldn't remember that he ate it and…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went…

— Brandi Chastain

“the smell of her grandfather’s fifty years of National Geographic, shelved in the hall. Downstairs,”

— William Gibson

I realized my family was famous because I was looking in my history book and I saw my grandfather.

— Sky Blu

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my…

— Kim Weston

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

— John Malkovich

To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod…

— Donald Hall

The Seahawks have only been around since 1976, so our fan base is relatively young. You talk about the Patriots, or the…

— Matt Hasselbeck

In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's…

— Rand Paul

My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I…

— Tyson Chandler

My grandfather was terminally ill, and any interaction with him felt so incomplete. It seemed impossible to say or do anything that…

— Jesse Andrews

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

— William Least Heat-Moon

I think everyone's had a brother or a father or a cousin, uncle or grandfather who's had health issues because they've neglected…

— James Magnussen

My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and…

— Sturgill Simpson

As we faithfully pay our tithes, the Lord will indeed open the windows of heaven and pour us out a blessing, that…

— Sheldon F. Child

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store…

— Anonymous

The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers…

— Manfred Rommel

Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of…

— Herbert Hoover

Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or…

— Michael Chabon

“One day, a young boy went up to his grandfather, who was an old Cherokee chief. ‘Edudi?’ the boy asked. ‘Why are…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing…

— Nelly

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.

— Peter Capaldi

My grandfather influenced my brother, and my brother was my biggest influence.

— Trombone Shorty

“Many years ago now, when I was a little boy, my grandfather he say to me this story.”

— O. Penn-Coughin

My grandfather was facing this terror, my parents, myself.

— Ariel Sharon

“Clearly, my grandfather had paved the way for me.”

— Charles Benedict

“No matter. Mr. Dixon will escort you to your Grandfather’s home.”

— J L MARRAIN

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

— Charlie W Shedd

You know, the Monaco Grand Prix is the grandfather of all street races.

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco