"Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands." — Pat Conroy

More Grandfather Quotes

This quote is filed under Grandfather Quotes, one of 534 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies… — 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… — Dan Aykroyd
• Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — 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,… — Marcus Aurelius

See all 534 Grandfather Quotes »