Grandfather Quotes - Page 8

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

Jacián!" She yells again, and then she says something in Spanish. A moment later he comes down the hallway. "I'm going to tell Grandfather you said that," he says. "What do you want?

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage.

She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.

My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.

In a strange way, becoming a grandfather is like starting your life over.

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

She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.

My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the 70s.

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.

Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist.

Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

Grandfather informs me that is not possible.

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.

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

A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

You might be a redneck if your grandfather completely executes the pull my finger trick at the family reunion.

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

I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.

If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.