Grandfather Quotes - Page 2

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

My grandfather used to say I don't care how you talk about me, good or bad, just don't leave me out of the conversation.

It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story.

Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

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.

A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes.

My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies.

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

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

The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution which would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.

One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

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!

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.

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.

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.