grandfather quotes

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Abraham Lincoln) [matter/grandfather]
• Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. (Henry Fielding) [dancing/grandfather]
• There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. (Victor Hugo) [love/grandfather]
• I made medicine in a bathtub. Whatever ailed you. I probably kept your grandfather alive. That's why you're here. (Al Lewis) [grandfather]
• You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather. (Albert Finney) [start/grandfather]
• My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked. (Andy Garcia) [grandfather/lawyer/time]
• Growing up in a very demonstrative kind of culture, Italian-Americans would sing a lot, and I think my grandfather, singing out the window, probably had the greatest influence in my life. (Dominic Chianese) [culture/think/grandfather/influence]
• I loved the story of these three characters [Wood's American Jonathan, his Ukrainian interpreter Alex and Alex's grandfather, their driver] on a road trip and the comedy that comes up because of lack of communication. (Elijah Wood) [grandfather]
• My grandfather always had horses. (Eric Roberts) [grandfather]
• My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that. () [grandfather/generosity/change]
• My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters. (Kevin Richardson) [grandfather]
• Oh, yes, my grandfather was Irish, and he was - he was with a visiting bunch of Irish that came to fight in the revolution in Mexico. (Anthony Quinn) [grandfather/fight/revolution]
• I had a grandfather who was Pennsylvania Dutch, and I went to Quaker school, and that makes one very aware of the earth. (Blythe Danner) [grandfather/school]
• I remember being surprised when Grandfather Tierney and my grandmother, Nellie, were divorced. (Gene Tierney) [remember/being/grandfather]
• I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man. (Illeana Douglas) [grandfather]
• “My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.” (Wyclef Jean) [grandfather/life/spirituality/eyes]
• “My grandfather was a great example of his generation,” (Ethan Hawke) [grandfather]
• “My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.” (Giovanni Ribisi) [mother/grandfather/film/life]
• It's a dark comedy, and it's basically: I'm a girl that's in college and I go home for my grandfather's funeral and everybody in my family is kind of nuts, so I have to write a eulogy for my grandfather. (Zooey Deschanel) [housing/family/grandfather]
• My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money. (Warren Beatty) [mother/grandfather/money]

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