My Grandfather Quotes

My grandfather always told me that it is no good lying on a hospital bed saying, 'I had the right of way', ... That's one of the reasons I was so pleased that the boys could do the IAM test as well.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

I want to appreciate you now, and avoid the rush.

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!

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 my grandfather's mistakes today.

Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary’s Grandfather/Acheron)

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

My grandfather and I were very close.

You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather.

When the chips are down, grandmothers can be counted on to do whatever's necessary. When the chips are down for grandfathers, we just go into the kitchen and get more chips.

I always tell people, you know, [J.F.Kennedy's] grandfather was born in Ireland and he was Irish-Catholic, and I thought, so maybe I could someday try do what he did.

Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.

I think back, when I saw The Great Gatsby, the film, my grandfather probably helped supply all the alcohol to all these Southampton parties, back then.

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

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

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

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten." "Tell him to take out the goalie.

Today is my grandfather's birthday." "How old is he?" "Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being.

I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'

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

I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.

My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life.

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.