Quotes About Grandfather

The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.

I was a Sheffield United fan from when my grandad, who's sadly passed away now, got a season ticket for me when I was four.

There are two rooms used as libraries, for which my mother and grandfather keep two separate and opposing systems of organization in their heads—hers by subject, his by the way he feels about the author: Animosity, Betrayed, Curious, Delighted, etc.

To me, my grandfather's urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it's such a blessing and lesson.

Adesso prentiti un po' di sonno, disse il nano, con quella che Tas definiva la Voce di Suo Nonno.

My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.

Back at the Davydokovo apartment, we sat mesmerized in front of Grandad's Avantgard brand TV. It was all porn all the time. Porn in three flavors: 1)Tits and asses; 2) gruesome close-ups of dead bodies from war or crimes; 3) Stalin. Wave upon wave of previously unseen documentary footage of the Generalissimo. Of all the porn, number three was the most lurid. The erotics of power.

I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.

There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. —Victor Hugo

It could very well be that if a grandfather paradox really gets going and history from the point of the twonky forward starts to come unglued... ...we all softly and suddenly vanish away. Not just you and me, but the Sun, Jupiter, Alpha Centauri and the Andromeda Galaxy. And so forth. This is known as the Cosmic Disgust Theory. Or: "If you're going to play games like that, I'll take my marbles and go home. Signed, God.

Te recordaré, abuelo. Te recordaré. Nunca se me olvidará lo que me dijiste. Es sólo el miedo lo que es diabólico...

A few people have said my granddad looks like me, but I reckon he's far better looking.

I'm not that hands-on as a grandfather.

I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes, or drive me to my mother's, so I'd be with my grandfather a lot. I used to watch him write his sermons.

I've got deep roots in Kalamazoo, with a grandfather, Harold Allen, who was a big part of Upjohn Co. for many years as the corporate secretary and friends with W. E. Upjohn.

The comparison between Harry Cohen and my grandfather is not one that bears close examination.

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.

Smoking-related heart disease runs in my family. My grandfather and great-grandfather died in their early 40s.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

My grandfather has a whole lot of respect for Coach Carroll and the way he handled himself and the contributions he made to the 49ers organization.

Or from even further back, from as far back as she could remember, there rose the fascination she had felt as a little girl every time she saw her grandfather shaving: he would sit down, usually around seven in the morning, after a frugal breakfast, and with a serious air make up his lather with a very soft brush in a bowl of very hot water, a lather so thick and white and firm that even after more than seventy-five years it still made her mouth water.

even if there is a ghost it cannot possibly be more disagreeable to live with than your grandfather

The Hawkhurst Gang was a pernicious set of ruffians – smugglers, you understand – that held a rule of terror over the countryside when your grandfather was a boy. They committed every sort of atrocity, and were so strong in numbers – how many men was it they were able to muster within an hour, Father?''I forget,' returned his lordship shortly. 'Five hundred,' supplied Richmond. 'And they used to have regular battles with rival gangs!

Why move it?" asked Violet. She liked the statue just where it was. The Minuteman wasn't very tall — just a little taller than Grandfather — and it was nice to lean against while eating an ice-cream cone.