Dad Quote by Elvis Costello

My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play…

— Elvis Costello

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a…

— Frank Schaeffer

Oddly enough, my mother was born in Southampton. I have roots in Southampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor. My grandfather, her father, Stefano Rullo, when he…

— Robert Davi

“When he was young, that God out of the Orient, then was he harsh and revengeful, and built himself a hell for the delight…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

'Frances' is a longtime family name on my dad's side. My grandfather, father, brother, and my daughter's name is Frances.

— Kate Spade

My grandfather, father, and uncle were chefs, and my other uncle was a butcher.

— Marco Pierre White

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…

— Marcus Aurelius

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

— Terry Pratchett

If anything, I'd say my family was entrepreneurial - my grandfather and father. It was in our blood. But I didn't have this one…

— Tilman J. Fertitta

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

— Maya Lin

Carrying on the Blanchard name is a huge honor for me because my grandfather, my father and my step-father - they've all put a…

— Tessa Blanchard

My father was a Victorian product. He didn't marry until he was over 40. I knew him more as a grandfather than a father.…

— Nigel Hawthorne

I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest…

— W. G. Sebald

From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing grapes, but…

— Scott Pruett

I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was…

— Laura Mvula