Paternal Grandfather Quotes & Sayings

There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Fenimore Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now. — Mark Twain

Things got said, the kinds of embarrassing things that don't go away. Tempers ran high. My paternal grandfather's teak desk required a new panel, which never quite matched the others. Intellectual debate can be very hard on furniture. — Nancy Kress

Before we go on from here, I just want to say," he paused and took a step closer to me and reached his hand out to my heart. "What I should have said back on the plane is I know you're real." His eyes narrowed, "I'll always fight for you, Lexi, in my own way. — S.G. Holster

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination. — Ken Robinson

I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote
first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on. — Julia Glass

My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr. — Horton Foote

On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me. — Dean Koontz

To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation. — Karen Chance

Paternal Grandfather
Remember the simple rule: you are to your father as your father is to your grandfather.
Therefore, if you are male and terrified of your father, you should be exponentially more terrified of your grandfather.
There are other issues related to your Earthling grandfather that are beyond the scope of this volume. — Charles Yu

I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city — Sufjan Stevens

My father is a very hardworking guy, and that's his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather. — Donald Trump Jr.

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name. — Simon Newcomb

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends. — Jennifer Chiaverini

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man. — Andre Gide

When King asked Adam to make three wishes, he wished that whatever was granting the wishes would not exist. — Anonymous

My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867. — Laurence Yep

As I mentioned, things were particularly hard during the Depression. My paternal grandfather was frequently out of work, and the family was evicted from their home. — Samuel Alito

In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me. — Clyde Edgerton

God's already pissed off. He has been for five thousand years, and He's sick to the nucleus of His soul. He's not going to show Himself - you're not worth His time. God's gone. He's fuckin' busy, man. — Edward Lee

I think about you all the time. I try to read, or brush my hair but all I think about is you. Sometimes I say your name over and over again, under my breath. No one can hear me, but I don't care. It just feels good to say it. — Nicky Silver

In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D'Oyly Carte performance of 'The Pirates of Penzance' which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it. — Stephen Lang

My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values. — Zarin Mehta

I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid. — Jessica Hagedorn

As Capp would remember, his paternal grandfather's early years in the store were characterized by success and expansion - until, that is, he discovered the works of Alexandre Dumas. To that point, he'd read virtually nothing but the Talmud, but he quickly determined that the swashbuckling adventures described in The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and other Dumas novels were much more exciting. He was hooked. Capp recalled seeing a photograph of his grandfather, cutting quite the figure with his long, Russian-style hair and beard, seated outside his store, reading Dumas rather than waiting on customers. He went out of business, his store purchased by creditors. — Denis Kitchen

To me a lot of electronic music out there is too serious. I'm a bit fed up with DJs who take themselves too seriously and don't smile. — Pedro Winter

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. — Elizabeth Gaskell

My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on Monday morning, because the Sabbath was a day of rest
a practice that made my paternal grandfather, the village atheist, as mad as fire. Nevertheless, he willed five quid to the minister, just to be on the safe side. — Angela Carter

Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs. — Charles J. Shields

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men. — Henri Michaux

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject. — James Wolcott

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet. — Laird Barron

The concept of equal pay for equal work is not only an impossible task, it can only be accomplished with the total rejection of the idea of the voluntary contract. The idea that a businessman must hire anyone and is prevented from firing anyone for any reason he chooses, and in the name of rights, is a clear indication that the basic concept of a free society has been lost. — Ron Paul