(92 quotes found)
“I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.”
Will Shriner
“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
Louis Adamic
“When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.”
Stephen Wright
“Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.”
Chuck Berry
“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
“You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.”
Chief Seattle
“My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather,”
Winston Churchill
“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
“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”
Will Rogers
“I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.”
William Gaddis
