Grandfather Quotes

I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

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.

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

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.

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

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

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.

At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.

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.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.