“ 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. ”
- Mario Cuomo- Copy
- 1.8K
“ My great-great-great-I may be missing a great there-grandfather was called Guillermo Prieto, and he was a very popular poet in his day, and a journalist and a member of President Juarez's Cabinet. ”
- Alma Guillermoprieto- Copy
- 390
“ It's true that I did get the girl but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then. ”
- Lyle Lovett- Copy
- 4K
“ A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then. ”
- John Templeton- Copy
- 3K
“ Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did. ”
- John Templeton- Copy
- 1.7K
“ My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour! ”
- Anne Baxter- Copy
- 1.5K
“ A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
- 628
“ If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 1.2K
“ We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong. ”
- Steven Tyler- Copy
- 102
“ My grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a wartime leader. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 4K
“ My grandfather, who was Shawnee, was a shaman, who taught me the old ways. ”
- Jim Morris- Copy
- 3.1K
“ My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. ”
- William Feather- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. ”
- Lydia Maria Child- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ”
- Lewis Mumford- Copy
- 485
“ I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 2.3K
“ My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. ”
- Indira Gandhi- Copy
- 3.9K
“ There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 2.1K
“ When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did — in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 1.8K
“ My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ”
- Louis Adamic- Copy
- 726
“ A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed. ”
- Anonymous- Copy
- 1.7K
“ My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked. ”
- Andy Garcia- Copy
- 3K
“ I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain. ”
- King Hussein I- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam. ”
- Sun Myung Moon- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I love flags… I think of the men and women of the armed forces that fight to protect peace and freedom. When I was a very small child I went with my grandfather, who was a Lt. Colonel in the US Army and served the country through four wars - WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam - to Ft… ”
- Robert Patrick- Copy
- 689
“ My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop. ”
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- Copy
- 1.5K
“ A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking… ”
- Charles B. Vaughan- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 326
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