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The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks. There — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Of this blest man, let his just praise be given,
Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven. — Izaak Walton

The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins. — Jose Andres

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what. — Sam Levenson

My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once. — Louis Garrel

Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead. — Fred Chappell

In my grandfather's premodern world, how he wanted to live was his choice, and the family's role was to make it possible. — Atul Gawande

My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband. — Pamela Anderson

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes. — William Poundstone

I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon. — Joakim Noah

It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. — Temple Grandin

My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine. — Marilynne Robinson

My grandfather told me all the world's problems come from us thinking we own pieces of the Earth, but we're pieces of her. Wilfrid — Eleni Papanou

She looks like a china doll," observed Grandfather as we departed. "I will break just as easily," I muttered. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Remember what you won't get if you don't mind, her grandfather remarked. — Flannery O'Connor

History is as Old as My Grandfather — Adolf Hitler

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. — Chuck Berry

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania. — Irwin Thomas

I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you. — Michael Caine

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did. — Benjamin Disraeli

My grandfather was an ordinary British citizen in the time of British Raj. He used to have Bengali friends from whom I learnt Bengali. — Fahmid Hassan Prohor

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg. — Roy Barnes

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics. — Thomas Ligotti

My life was planned by Grandfather. Except for my personal life, where he didn't have the same control. — Sadie Grubor

If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one. — J.D. Salinger

I have an older brother who's an actor and a grandfather who was an actor. — Ben Lloyd-Hughes

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time. — Gore Vidal

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen. — Robin Tunney

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California. — Armie Hammer

I love blues. My grandfather did blues. — R. Kelly

My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory. — Stephen Pagliuca

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell. — Julian Clary

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality. — Lenny Kravitz

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York. — Armie Hammer

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him. — Yancy Butler

I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100. — Annette Bening

My Grandfather was a drunk, my father was a drunk... I am a drunk. I drink to forget the pain of life. — Mark Worrall

My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death. — Laila Ali

My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow. — Trinny Woodall

On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since. — Jarrett J. Krosoczka

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died. — Norm MacDonald

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company. — John F. Kennedy

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA. — Joe Lhota

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out. — Kent Beck

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. — Dan Fogelberg

I will not lie to my doctor to get sex pills for my grandfather. — Alexia Adams

He was an Atlantean ... older than dirt and dirt's great-grandfather. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin. — Arnon Goldfinger

My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies. — Wyclef Jean

Your grandfather's coffin is heavier than you expect. Your father's coffin is heavier than you can bear. — Todd Lowe

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy. — Felicia Day

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. — Rebecca Harding Davis

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth. — Alexandra Stoddard

I first felt myself a shaky axis between worlds when I watched my grandfather move those prophetic queens. — S. Kelley Harrell

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather. — Nik Wallenda

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation. — John Bunyan

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die. — Chris Hardwick

When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being. — Donald Hall

My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever. — Jeff Bezos

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral ... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad. — Woody Allen

At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself. — James Thurber

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. — Abraham Lincoln

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot. — Nelly Furtado

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve. — Ernest L. Boyer

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket. — Tim Scott

It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor. — Will Graham

I've been on my grandfather's boat, Calypso, twice in my life. My mother raised me in a pretty typical middle-class life. — Philippe Cousteau Jr.

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s. — James Nicoll

I was born in a house where my family lived for 300 years. I was born in the home where my grandfather was born in. — Sirio Maccioni

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder. — Mohamed Al-Fayed

I'm not that hands-on as a grandfather. — Alan Sugar

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us. — Barry Gibb

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine. — Karrine Steffans

The only way to tell a fable is to introduce a human. The only way to tell a proverb is to introduce your grandfather. — Bauvard

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep. — John F. Kennedy

Never take things for granted. Never ignore what is obvious. — Arnold Arre

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. — Wyclef Jean

My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning. — Harley Viera-Newton

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life. — Gore Vidal

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. — Khalil Gibran

I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River. — Karl Marlantes

I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian. — Jen Lancaster

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old. — Bobby Keys

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather! — Louis Sachar

My grandfather and I were very close. — Tea Obreht

The only story my grandfather tells me about his days in the NFL is how much better he was than me. — Clay Matthews III

In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather. — Marco Rubio

Because they wanted the thrill, said his grandfather. They wanted to feel terror. Fear makes you alive. — Chris Priestley

It was as Ginger's grandfather had said. It did not matter how far you go, you always take yourself with you. — Tom McNeal

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world. — Tom Spanbauer

My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people. — Rajneesh

When he arrived in Wales, my grandfather had been a young, frightened boy who didn't speak the language, a boy hunted by two kinds of monsters: — Ransom Riggs

There is no greater achievement than being a grandfather who tells fairy tales to grandchildren. — Eraldo Banovac

Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary's Grandfather/Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The rehearsal of Grandfather's arguments came with wondrous facility to Slava. — Boris Fishman

Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father. — Jamie Wyeth

My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family. — Tagg Romney

Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either. — Haruki Murakami

Show me, Grandfather, and I will finish what you started. Trembling — Alan Dean Foster