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Grandfathers Quotes (page 4)

Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn’t quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn’t love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful “just deserts,” which I thought must be poisoned food at the end of delicious meals. John Hersey
If ever I was going to listen to a string of swearwords sitting next to a ninety-four-year-old, I'm glad that ninety-four-year-old was my grandfather. Not that he swears a lot. It's just that he can take it. And, he is currently laughing so hard that his eyes are watery. A. J. Jacobs
John Crowley quote: "They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but..."
They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother. John Crowley
Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we, Anne? I want to know. It's pretty safe ain't it? L. M. Montgomery
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. J. D. Salinger
On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me. Dean Koontz
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant) Isaac Babel
Charles M. Schulz quote: "Today is my grandfather's birthday."How old is..."
Today is my grandfather's birthday."How old is he?"Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being. Charles M. Schulz
Too young, too young, she chanted to herself. Wrong, of course. I was older than her grandfather but according to my driver's license, she was right. Stephenie Meyer
Walter Mosley quote: "There was something about his grandfather's death, about men..."
There was something about his grandfather's death, about men who love their sons . . . Walter Mosley
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. Charles M. Schulz
Alice Hoffman quote: "People all over town had listened for my grandfather's cries,..."
People all over town had listened for my grandfather's cries, but there were none. Only silence. Alice Hoffman
Lewis Mumford quote: "Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends..."
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. Lewis Mumford
I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy. Kary Mullis
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.' William Least Heat-Moon

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