Father Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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 opportunity and…

— Herbert Hoover

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my…

— Robert Fisk

Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them…

— Alvin Francis Poussaint

It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with…

— Ellen Goodman

Working men, in particular, face a world they did not expect, jobs are hard to find and pay badly meaning they often can't provide…

— Katty Kay

Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather…

— Friedrich Engels

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

— Pete Seeger

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

— J. Norman Collie

If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit,…

— Elie Wiesel

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

— Margaret Mead

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

— Susana Martinez