First Grandson Quotes

#1. One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.

Tom Stoppard

#2. Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.

Lena Dunham

#3. To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#4. I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

Whitley Strieber

#5. Marketing that works is marketing that people choose to notice.

Seth

#6. In 1892, mine owner L. L. Nunn had hired the electrical wizard Nikola Tesla to build the world's first alternating-current power

Clive Cussler

#7. I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

Sojourner Truth

#8. An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.

Andre Maurois

#9. I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

Arnold Kling

#10. I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.

Dan Maffei