Grandfather Quotes

“And I don’t think you need to be scared of forgetting me,” the boy says
“No?”
“No. Because if you forget me then you’ll just get the chance to get to know me again. And you’ll like that, because I’m actually a pretty cool person to get to know.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“I believe that when we come into this world, we are not promised glory, fortune, fame, a happy family or really anything at all. All we get is the journey. And in these pages, you will find mine. -Dipa to her Grandfather”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

“The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Graceful. Lean. Coordinated as she whirls, though how she knows what dancing is, [her grandfather] could never guess.

The song plays on. He lets it go too long. The antenna is still up, probably dimly visible against the sky, the whole attic might as well shine like a beacon. But in the candlelight, in the sweet rush of a concerto, Marie-Laure bites her lower lip, and her face gives off a secondary glow, reminding him of the marshes beyond the town walls, in those winter dusks when the sun has set but isn't fully swallowed, and big patches of red pools of light burn - places he used to go with his brother, in what seems like lifetimes ago.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“My grandfather would pet the dog, and, in a voice that made him sound like some kind of children's program puppet, he would say: "You're a dog! You're a dog! Where are you? You're a dog!" and the dog's tongue would drop out of its mouth and it would start keening.
After a few hours of this, I said, "Jesus Grandpa, I get it, he's a dog," not knowing that, just a few years later, I would be reminding every dog I met on the street that it was a dog, and asking it where it was.”
― Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

“Nowadays he drove the car into town to fetch his grandfather from habit alone, and though he still considered forty five miles an hour merely cruising speed, he no longer took cold and fiendish pleasure in turning curves on two wheels or in detaching mules from wagons by striking the whiffle-trees with his bumper in passing.”
― William Faulkner, Flags in the Dust

“38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and warned me not to forget it. I remember his words but never did figure out what he meant!)”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“All right now, y’all,” Granddaddy says to us. That’s his way of saying good morning.”
― Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

“Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically.”
― M. Robert Randolph

“She'd wanted that, a grandfather. Someone who would stay. Michel had an eyetooth that turned sideways and she loved it more than anything else in the world. But someone wasn't yours because you loved a tooth.”
― Erika Swyler, The Mermaid Girl: A Story

“Du bisch au ohni Schminki hübsch gnug. 2007”
― Gropi

“Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I don't want you to be lonely," Cedar couldn't help saying. "Or hungry! You two always forget to go shopping till the cupboards are bare. I'll be right back." She grabbed some baskets and ran out of the house.
Old Mother Hubbard's Corner Market was always open early, so Cedar filled her baskets with Pinocchio's and Gepetto's favorite foods: bread, fruitcake, sardines, and humble pie.”
― Shannon Hale, Once Upon a Time: A Story Collection

“I can't go to America. I don't want to go to any foreign land where I don't speak the language or know the customs. I'd rather die here by the Vietcong's hands, among my ancestors, than live like a ghost among strangers. You go!”
― Kien Nguyen, The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

“—El abuelo solía decir que todo empeora y luego mejora. O dikata njo, o dikwa mma —comentó Kainene.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Medio sol amarillo

“You don’t have to sleep if you don’t want to.” - Masao”
― Hidemi Woods, An Old Tree in Kyoto: How a Japanese girl got freedom

“Grandpa was gone,
his walking stick
stood by an empty chair.”
― Meeta Ahluwalia

“My grandpa, unlike Jarod Kintz, was an Elder. Now that he's dead and gone, he's a ghost French wizard. And no one knows what French wizards are good at…”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“If I were offering hip replacement services I'd use Jarod Kintz as my spokesman. No one can possibly be better than him, to replace the missing spoke in your wheels.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“The best Christmas present you can give to your dead grandfather is not showing up until Easter. And telling no one about it. Especially not yourself.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“I revealed my affection towards my former employer and felt sick at myself for betraying him. My grandfather stood and poured me another tall glass. He offered me a sour tomato to take the edge off of the vodka. Pappy pulled his chair up next to mine then put his oversized arm around my shoulder and offered me his wisdom. "Feel no pity for this man James," he whispered. "A fool and his money are lucky to come together in the first place. More so, it's the responsibility of much smarter, more dubious men to party them," he finished.”
― Gary "Gunz" Govich

“You know I won’t take a chance with your lives…” Ethan replied. “You’re the future of the Fortner family.” He smiled and took her hand in his. “Like I said, don’t worry…before you know it you’ll have Jeff back and you can tell him he’s going to be a father!”
― C.G. Faulkner, White Room: A Cold War Thriller

“Gabriel's face was leathery from the sun, clean with honesty, and framed by a thick beard that was striped black and white like a badger's hide. He was tall, sometimes formidably so, but children tended to forget that when he hunched down on his knees. He did that whenever he could, so that their eyes were level.”
― Angela Panayotopulos, The Wake Up

“Papa, a skilled physician, knew just what to give me. First, a shot of paregoric, a powerful tincture of opium, followed with a shot or two of gin. I haven't experienced a menstrual cramp yet that could survive this onslaught.”
― Lorena Cassady, Her Perilous Journey

“মশলার ইহুদি যাজক
যাঁর শ্বাস এক ক্রিয়াপদ,
দাড়ি তাঁর বেশ পাতলা
আর একটা শাদা আলখাল্লা :
আপনি, যিনি রোগা আর ক্ষুদে
আর চেহারা মুঠোর মতো,
এক ইহুদি ধর্মস্হান,
আমাদের তিক্ততাকে আশীর্বাদ করেন,
রান্নাঘরকে শ্রেষ্ঠ করে তুলে
মৃত্যুকে মিষ্টতা দেবার জন্য--
শিখায় আমাদের মোম
আর রুটিতে আমাদের বীজ
আমার দাদু বসে থাকেন
আমার কাকারা পুরে দ্যান
আমার মুখে ছাই ।”
― Bert Meyers, In a Dybbuk's Raincoat: Collected Poems

“What do you think of her?" he asked.
Annandale replied without hesitation. "I would marry her myself, were I five years younger."
"Five?" Christopher repeated skeptically.
"Ten, damn you." But a slight smile had appeared on the earl's time-weathered face. "I commend you on your choice. She's a spirited girl. Fearless, Lovely in her own way, and with her charm she has no need of true beauty. You'll need to keep a firm hand on the reins, but the trouble will be worth it." He paused, looking wistful. "Once you've had a woman like that, you can never be content with the ordinary kind."
Christopher had been about to argue over the question of Beatrix's beauty, which in his opinion was unequaled. But that last sentence caught his attention. "You're referring to Grandmother?" he asked.
"No. Your grandmother was the kind of woman I thought I should marry. I was in love with someone else- a far less suitable girl. And I let her go, to my everlasting regret." He sighed, pondering some distant memory. "A lifetime without her..."
Fascinated, Christopher wanted to ask more... but this was hardly the time or place for such a conversation. However, it gave him an unexpected insight into his grandfather. What would it do to a man, to marry a Prudence when one might have had a Beatrix? It would be enough to turn anyone bitter.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon

“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.”
― Georges Perec, Life: A User's Manual

“SOCIAL SERVICE: My grandfather used to say, 'If you wish to help, what your right hand does, your left should not know!' Your loving help should humbly remain between you and God, with the one you helped, being the third to know!”
― Adiela Akoo

“When I saw her figure standing on Ulv Hunger's ship, I realized she was my first love. Oh, do not laugh! Go and ask your grandfather who was his first love, and when he answers, 'Your grandmother', ask him again. He will smile, for such is the pain of first love that it leaves no bitterness behind.”
― Erik Christian Haugaard, Hakon of Rogen's Saga

“His grandmother was chopping up the ham with a fury that implied the pig had done something to offend her. Tumble was watching them both wide eyed, her glass of tea half way to her mouth.”
― Cassie Beasley