My grandfather Quotes

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

— Georgette Heyer

In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'

— Herman Cain

My grandfather and I were very close.

— Tea Obreht

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

— Chuck Berry

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

— Bill Cosby

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.

— Nelly Furtado

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

— Cassandra Clare

Even today a lot of people know me because of my grandfather.

— Chris Paul

My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off.

— Milton Jones

Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'

— Emo Philips

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

— Felicia Day

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front…

— Tommy Shaw

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

— David Attenborough

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

— Erica Jong

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

— Temple Grandin

My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

— Dan Quayle

I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative…

— Zoe Kazan

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the…

— Brad Pitt

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations…

— Clarence Thomas

My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being…

— Helen Mirren

Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in…

— Mona Simpson

This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was…

— Alan Hovhaness

[Bill] Clinton's voice, his manner of speaking and his terminology, "Back in those days... Yeah, back those days... You know, we didn't…

— Rush Limbaugh

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my…

— Gene Simmons

Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in…

— Jose Saramago

I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were…

— Lydia Wilson

Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams…

— Alveda King

At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and…

— Jesse L. Greenstein

He was very supportive of me, ... He saw every single play I did in New York. Ill never forget looking out…

— Liev Schreiber

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house…

— Ray Bradbury

I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was…

— Michel Gondry

My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things…

— Paul Johnson

And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

My nation faces a fundamental challenge - survival. The regime is more threatened than ever before. My forefathers had it easy. The…

— Kim Jong-un

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

— Nelly

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.

— Richard Paul Evans

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

— Dave Van Ronk

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

— Novak Djokovic

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

— Henry Louis Gates

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

— Thomas Ligotti