Top Grandfather Quotes

  • Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath. – Midnight Taylor

    Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.– Midnight Taylor

  • It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.– Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  • Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I’m a grandfather. Or Dead. – Fred Chappell

    Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I’m a grandfather. Or Dead.– Fred Chappell

  • Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either. – Haruki Murakami

    Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.– Haruki Murakami

  • As a boy, I remember my father telling me a bedtime story about the day my grandfather was decapitated. – Justin Bienvenue

    As a boy, I remember my father telling me a bedtime story about the day my grandfather was decapitated.– Justin Bienvenue

  • His father had been in the military and so had his grandfather. It was a natural fit when Ronan and his brothers each donned a uniform of some kind. – Sara Humphreys

    His father had been in the military and so had his grandfather. It was a natural fit when Ronan and his brothers each donned a uniform of some kind.– Sara Humphreys

  • I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much. – Gertrude B Elion

    I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.– Gertrude B Elion

  • In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers. – Ta Obreht

    In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.– Ta Obreht

  • Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world. – Tom Spanbauer

    Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.– Tom Spanbauer

  • My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met – Raji Singh

    My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met– Raji Singh