Quotes of: Grandfathers Keyword

My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.

Jennifer Grant

I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

Chris Colfer

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

Sebastian Horsley

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

Jeb Hensarling

When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather.

Oona Chaplin

My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the other side of the world and everything that's going on.

Ali Lohan

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

Wyclef Jean

I live for 3 reasons; To build a Home for my mom, to buy a chair for grandfather and to turn to dust.

Fort Free

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

David Attenborough

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

James Earl Jones

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself.

Clint Eastwood

Joey Gazelle: Go get your grandfather. Nicky Gazelle: I just washed my hands.

Running Scared

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [after reading his grandfather's notes] IT... COULD... WORK!

Young Frankenstein

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: My grandfather... was a very... SICK... man.

Young Frankenstein

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 soccer game I ever played.

Brandi Chastain

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.

James Altucher

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

Andrew Cuomo

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln

My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open, because you never know what's going to come your way.

Bobbi Brown

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

Tammy Baldwin

Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.

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