My grandfather Quotes

History is as Old as My Grandfather

— Adolf Hitler

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

— Arnon Goldfinger

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

— Thomas Ligotti

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Henry Louis Gates

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 is great. He's a great grandfather.

— Leonard Marx

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

— Gene Perret

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

— Illeana Douglas

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

— Giada De Laurentiis

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

— Robin Tunney

My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there.

— Ron Richards

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the…

— Jeff Sessions

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.

— Desi Arnaz

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no…

— Tammy Baldwin

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers…

— Jane Smiley

[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a…

— Dwight Yoakam

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in…

— Rudy Giuliani

I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an…

— Mike Birbiglia

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three…

— Umberto Eco

My grandfather was a small-town doctor and he used to say that I was missing a gene that told me that some…

— Paul Budnitz

If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know…

— James Packer

I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one…

— Bela Fleck

Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My…

— David Klass

Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made…

— Holly Black

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

— Alice Sebold

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay…

— Forest Whitaker

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

I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I…

— Chris Cleave

As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of…

— Neville Bonner

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

— Nelly

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

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.

— Mohamed Al-Fayed

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

— Ogden Nash

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