Best father & grandfather Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think there is a heritage which I’m proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.”

Thinking Country Fighting Father Social Justice Principles Democracy Proud Six Social Justice Jail Heritage Grandfather Exile My Grandfather Fighting For Freedom

Author:George Papandreou

“I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.”

Ifs Country Might Today Father Military Becoming Politician Six My Family Prison Professors Grandfather Dictatorship My Grandfather

Author:George Papandreou

“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.”

Two Film Mother Actors Father Saws Four Week Grandfather My Grandfather Begging

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).”

Father President Class Generations Century Standards Former Attractive Grandfather Nazi Eastern Bankers 19th Century 1930s Yale Upper Class Poppies Wasps

Author:Peter York

“If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?”

“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.”

Father Individual Saws Lawyer Farmers Grandfather Elegant My Grandfather Cuba Miami

Author:Andy Garcia

“My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.”

Thinking Way School Father Stars Lines White Player Military Dad My Dad Halls Grandfather My Grandfather Orphan Trumpets Military School

Author:Elvis Costello

“My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.”

Different Play Wanted Father Dad My Dad Grandfather My Grandfather Dots Different Music

Author:Elvis Costello

“My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.”

Men Firsts Father Blood Adventure Ocean My Family Exploration Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Bertrand Piccard

“Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs... have usurped a large part of the soil.”

Men Littles Stills Father Son Sorrow Driven Spots Obedience Excellent Soil Sincere Reverence Grandfather Cheerful My Grandfather Recollection Mansions Stewards Swarms Contractor Tenants

Author:William Cobbett

“My mother and grandmothers could never have lived my life; my father and my grandfathers could never have imagined it. But they bestowed on me the promise of America, which made my life and my choices possible.”

Made America Mother Choices Father Promise Grandmother Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.”

Stories Age Used Father Watches Four Down And Grandfather My Grandfather Daydreaming Watch Movie

Author:Aneurin Barnard

“A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.”

Father Poverty Proud Comfort Historical Crush Grandfather Sensibility Be Proud Great Grandfather

Book:Spillville: A Collaboration

Source: Spillville: A Collaboration

“The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.”

“My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.”

Mother Father Stuff Piano Grandfather Violin Fathers And Grandfathers

Author:Pete Seeger

“A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.”

Writing Country Father Natural Grew Battle Grew Up Administration My Time Grandfather Senators My Grandfather Family History Perfectly Natural

Author:Gore Vidal

“I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.”

Father Teacher Intellectual Doctors Germany Immigrants Preacher Grandfather Businessman Small Business My Grandfather Abolitionist

Author:Pete Seeger

“I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.”

People Thinking War Country Father Force Felt Support Air Brother Duty Grew Honor Grew Up Army Soldier Warrior My Brother Officers Grandfather My Grandfather Air Force Kinship

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.”

Said Father Known Grandmother Denied Mexico Grandfather Fathers And Grandfathers

Author:Susana Martinez

“The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.”

Men Trying Mind Hard Father Black Justice Streets Brother Grew Grew Up Tough Males My Brother Staying Conception Diverse Grandfather My Grandfather Black Males

Author:Cornel West

“In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.”

Father Cases Grandfather Daddy Papa

Author:Clyde Edgerton

“When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'”

Firsts Said States Running Father Son Congress Ran Grandfather My Grandfather Assembly Headlines

Author:Thomas Kean, Jr.

“Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet, knight, or gentleman, shot himself, has certain planks in the floor from which the blood will not be taken out. You may scrape and scrape, as the present owner has done, or plane and plane, as his father did, or scrub and scrub, as his grandfather did, or burn and burn with strong acids, as his great-grandfather did, but, there the blood will still be - no redder and no paler - no more and no less - always just the same.”

May Stills Done Certain Father Strong Rooms Lord Taken Blood Shots Planes Gentleman Owners Halls Grandfather Knights Acid Spooky Great Grandfather

Book:Some Christmas Stories

Source: Some Christmas Stories

“My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.”

Knows Father Names Chance Nice Generations Son My Son Grandfather Icons One Chance

Author:Jennifer Grant

“Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.”

“In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Should Years Two Dream Earth Beautiful Three Father Waiting Change Generations Achieve Hundred Grandfather Anticipate

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.”

Father Goodness Grandfather Our Father Fathers And Grandfathers

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.”

School Father Grew Grew Up Boxes My Time Boxing Native Grandfather Native American Uncles My Grandfather Boxers Oklahoma Wrestler

Author:George Tahdooahnippah

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