Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caroline Kennedy

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Brett Eldredge

I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

Jan Karon

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Channing Tatum

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

Billy Crystal

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

William Shakespeare

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

Antony Sher

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

Gia Coppola

My grandpa always tells me that 45-minute lunches are key because an army marches on its stomach.

Evel Knievel

My grandpa got me a set of Wilson clubs, Sam Snead models, when I was 12. Many years later, when I'd become well known, I got to know Sam, and we played a lot of golf together.

Rickie Fowler

My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.

Dolly Parton

My grandpa was a preacher.

E. L. Konigsburg

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

Douglas Booth

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

Anthony Jeselnik

Disgusting. I just found my grandpa's Viagra. I swear, I almost puked from eating so many.

Curtis Jackson

My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

Dave Grohl

People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

So many things we love are you!

Anne Lamott

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

Anne Enright

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

Steven R. McQueen

I started watching movies my grandpa did, and I saw what an impact they made on the world. That's when I said, 'Hey, I want to do that too.'

James Earl Jones

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

O. Henry

Grandpa always said to try to learn something new every day and if you think you've learned it all it was time to get out of the business.

M. Ward

My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

Erma Bombeck

A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect.

Jennifer Morrison

He's knows it like the back of his hand already. His grandpa went to the old Grimes School.

Jeb Hensarling

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

Shooter Jennings

If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.

Seth Rogen

When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor. I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior and I haven't moved one step forward since.

Margaret Mead

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

Penn Jillette

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.