Grandfather Quotes - page 2

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life. (Thomas Pynchon)
Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays my grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength. View quote
Rosa Parks
My grandfather always says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch. View quote
Jhumpa Lahiri
A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather. View quote
John Howard
I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below. View quote
Mario Cuomo
In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father. View quote
Anton Chekhov
My grandfather, father, and uncle were chefs, and my other uncle was a butcher. View quote
Marco Pierre White
My grandfather went through a lot in his life. View quote
Novak Djokovic
My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing. View quote
Richard Paul Evans
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out. (Frank Ocean)
Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary's Grandfather/Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba. View quote
Amin Maalouf
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. View quote
William Gaddis
I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement! View quote
Amber Rose
My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate. View quote
Aubrey Plaza
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. View quote
Al Jardine
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. View quote
Brandi Chastain
My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for. View quote
Brenda Strong
I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people. View quote
Dichen Lachman
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. (Dave Van Ronk)
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 overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. View quote
Emanuel Celler
My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States. View quote
Emanuel Celler
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that. View quote
Erik Estrada
My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food. View quote
Giada De Laurentiis