Grandfather Quotes - Page 10

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

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

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

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

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.

I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I suppose I had developed a sense of reverence for the locations he described in his memoirs and letters - the forts and the high emplacements. I had expected them to have been preserved in some way.

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.

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

In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.

Ironically, I come from a family of lawyers - my dad, my grandfather, and now my oldest son. And some of my very best friends are lawyers, though they don't resemble the ones that appear in my novels.

I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.

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

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.

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

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

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

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.

I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

I want to make the most out of the word ‘fame.’ I want to do good things with my fame, or whatever it is. I want to help and do charity work. There’s something going on in Chile right now with the water, so I think I’m going to down there in a month to help out. 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.

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

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.