Grandfather Quote by Alexander Woollcott

“The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort…

— Ami McKay

“I’d lived a lot of years walking down the wrong roads, and those days had compacted like the folds of an accordion, into an…

— Kim Dinan

“When I thought of how I’d been living, how I’d been approaching life, it was all so trite, so miserably pointless. Unimaginative middle-class rubbish,…

— Haruki Murakami

“Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years…

— Robert Macfarlane

“In this place the air he breathed was fresher, the sun was brighter, and life was filled with hope.”

— Matt Thomas

“My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.”

— Nell Casey

“Grandfather always got things wrong. He saw life from outside and never quite understood.”

— Terry Pratchett

“History’s smell. Like old roses on a breeze. It would lurk forever in ordinary things. In coat hangers. Tomatoes. In the tar on roads.…

— Arundhati Roy

“Back then life was simple and sweet. Everything was simple and sweet. The taste of cherries, the cool shade, the fresh smell of the…

— Cyril Pedrosa

“Here You always belonged here. You were theirs, certain as a rock. I’m the one who worries if I fit in with the furniture…

— Jane Kenyon

“The majestic architecture, the cultivated manners, the simplicity of life, the disregard for one's fellow man, the plagues, the rampant corruption, the unmitigated racism,…

— Chris Elliott

“give you a nostalgia for a people and a soil you have never known, but which is in your blood, mysteriously there in your…

— Henry Miller