Top Grandfathers Quotes
One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
Colin Firth
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.
James Loeb
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Lewis Mumford
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Gertrude Stein
The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.
Max von Sydow
Gertrude Stein 
Lewis Mumford 
Robert E. Howard 
Colin Firth 
Stokely Carmichael 
Max von Sydow 
Laura Ingalls Wilder 
Roger Mahony 
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One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
Colin Firth 
68% of people like this quote
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.
James Loeb
62% of people like this quote
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Lewis Mumford
57% of people like this quote
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Gertrude Stein
57% of people like this quote
The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.
Max von Sydow
54% of people like this quote
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
Stokely Carmichael
49% of people like this quote
There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.
George Thorogood
47% of people like this quote
You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.
Black Elk
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Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
William Feather
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A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
46% of people like this quote