My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. — Louis Adamic Copy Share Image
“My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better.” — Elle Jasper Copy Share Image
My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs. — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my grandfather looked up at me and said, — Kassie Stanley Holden ME US Copy Share Image
Both my parents' brothers are into active politics and so was my grandfather. — Mimi Chakraborty Copy Share Image
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad. — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
People tell me I have to follow in the footsteps of my mom and grandfather, but it's a lot of pressure. I… — Selah Louise Marley Copy Share Image
“Grandfather : Death is nothing to be afraid of. Renee : It's not death I'm afraid of. Grandfather: What is it, then? Renee : LIFE ” — Yvonne Wood Copy Share Image
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“Ron Popeil is the grandfather of them all, and his stock phrase was “But wait, there’s more…” — Michael Bungay Stanier Copy Share Image
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people. — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
“My life was planned by Grandfather. Except for my personal life, where he didn’t have the same control.” — Sadie Grubor Copy Share Image
My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium. — Urmila Matondkar Copy Share Image
I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
I haven't done any genealogical exploring myself, though members of my family and also of my husband's family have traced things back.… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
In mind's special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the 60 minutes reported by a grandfather clock. Such time, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When my Mexican-born grandfather, Rafael, immigrated to work in the mines of the American Southwest, where he eventually settled with his young… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my… — Penny Marshall Copy Share Image
I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that… — Stephen Roche Copy Share Image
“Finally, he smiled, and although his smile was bumpy because some of his teeth were jagged and broken, it was a warming,… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
i was raped, too sexually assaulted in seventh grade, tenth grade. the summer after graduation, at a party i was 16 i… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of… — Neville Bonner Copy Share Image
"So we'd get in a horse and buggy and we would go and park under a tree and we'd read poetry to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“A Native American grandfather was speaking to his grandson about violence and cruelty in the world and how it comes about. He… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Deacon Jones grew up a street over from my grandfather, where I was raised. — Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Copy Share Image
