Best Grandfather Quotations
534 Grandfather quotes by 443 unique authors
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My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.
— Leigh Steinberg
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I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.
— Tim Scott
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My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93…
— Betty Ford
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Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is…
— M. Russell Ballard
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The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student…
— James Loeb
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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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When I was your age, we didn’t have the Internet in our pants. We didn’t even have the Internet not in our pants. That’s how…
— Dick Costolo
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Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.
— Haruki Murakami
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My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my…
— Vincent Schiavelli
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My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell…
— Isabel Allende
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When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him…
— Tommy Shaw
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I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.
— Nik Wallenda
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People at present think that five sons are not too many and each son has five sons also, and before the death of the grandfather…
— Han Fei
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My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped…
— Emanuel Celler
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My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
— Emanuel Celler
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My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get…
— Scott Ian
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I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in…
— Sun Myung Moon
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We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers…
— Roger Mahony
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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall…
— Ray Bradbury
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If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make…
— Frank Herbert
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Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my…
— Alveda King
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I remember I was always enamored by and loved motorcycles as a kid. My grandfather had motorcycles and I remember going for a ride and…
— Taylor Kinney
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When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius Tullius.…
— Steven Saylor
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One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true…
— David Lloyd George
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The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly…
— Robertson Davies
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