Quotes for All
a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find … Read more
Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes. Etheridge Knight
My grandfather was a giant of a man … When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky. Eth Clifford
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
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that. Erik Estrada
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. Erica Jong
My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. Eric Liu
In fact, Darwin’s own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions… and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity. Erasmus Darwin
My grandfather’s 86 and he’s having a baby. Man, I hope when I’m 86 I can have babies. Enrique Iglesias
If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you’d be safer … Read more