Grandfather Quotes

534 quotes by 443 authors

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least… — J. J. Abrams
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough
My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was… — Dan Aykroyd
Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people… — Drew Barrymore
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. — Stokely Carmichael
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and… — Julian Clary
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. — Woody Allen
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to… — C.S. Lewis
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. — Lewis Mumford
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. — Louis Adamic
From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on… — Marcus Aurelius
Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created. — Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter,… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid… — John Wooden
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then,… — Gore Vidal
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
My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather. — Leonard Marx
If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started… — William J. Clinton
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every… — Brandi Chastain

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