Grandsires Quotes & Sayings

Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow. — John Donne

Funniest thing about love, how it shakes loose when no one's looking. How the dark helps it along. Maybe that's why we dug caves so much, way back when. — Catherynne M Valente

He's not fit to lace my boots as a player.
(on Kevin Keegan) — George Best

Ah, vampire humor. Thank God it never got old, said no one ever. — Chloe Neill

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. — Horace

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only ... with the idea God has of you. — Miguel De Unamuno

You two. You can do a cleaning spell."
One slurred, "But Nixie, I'm really pre-hung-over."
Nix's eyes went wide. "Do it, or the photos go live!"
The witch shook her fist to the sky, crying, "Damn you, Valkyrie! Damn you and your digital ways! — Kresley Cole

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore. — Emily Dickinson

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny. — Horace

Ye'll ken the Declaration of Arbroath, will ye? Four hundred years since, it was our sires, our grandsires, who put their hands to these words: ... for as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule." He stopped to steady his voice, then went on. "It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself. — Diana Gabaldon