Granddaddy Quotes

#1. [The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

Donald Knuth

#2. I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

Theodore Bikel

#3. I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.

Michael Ritchie

#4. My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

Alveda King

#5. Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.

Wesley Strick

#6. After lunch Tiny returned to his fence work while Granddaddy and Fup repaired to the porch to sip a little Death Whisper, be still, and generally consider the drift of things. (55)

Jim Dodge

#7. Granddaddy can pick up a phone and call anyone in the world and they will take his call. But he doesn't know it.

Johnny Hunt

#8. I'm the granddaddy of this side. I'm the oldest person playing in the team, so I've got a mentoring role. I've been around the tracks and achieved a few things. I try to make sure that the younger players reach their full potential, and stay on the right track.

Filo Tiatia

#9. My grandmother once told me, "Relationships are work, honey, and they aren't 50/50. Some days when I get up I only feel like giving 10%, then your granddaddy has to give 90% that day. But there is always 100% love.

Leigh Ann Lunsford

#10. Yep. There's a lie on the wall of my old elementary school that only my Granddaddy and me know about... And I'm okay with that.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#11. Do just-friends sleep all tangled up like a bunch of baby granddaddy long-legged spiders?

Carolyn Brown

#12. Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.

Christopher Fowler

#13. Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

Michael Franti

#14. There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again ... You can look him straight in the eye and say, Son your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son of a Goddamned Bitch named Georgie Patton.

George S. Patton Jr.

#15. Get off me, Bran!" she howled, her sweet breath brushing his lips when she turned her head to look at him. "If you get yourself killed bein' all heroic and brave, I swear on my granddaddy's grave, I'll murder you!

Julie Ann Walker

#16. We define what tabloid is. We're the granddaddy of all tabloids.

Mike Walker

#17. Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.

Hunter S. Jones

#18. So that makes him, like, your fang granddaddy.

Jeaniene Frost

#19. Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

Billy Collins

#20. You couldn't keep up with me. Don't forget, the Energizer was my granddaddy.

Eve Langlais

#21. My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.

Willie Nelson

#22. I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

Jimmy Dean

#23. We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Jeff Zucker

#24. My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.

Josh Turner

#25. However, the power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion he has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.

Michael S. Horton

#26. Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

Michel Chossudovsky

#27. I think back to my dream of the boy, because in it I find solace. I like that word. I'm going to make it my word of the year. There is just something about that boy that makes me feel like I belong. Belong. Long to be. Weird word, but semantics aside, it is up there with solace.

Melina Marchetta

#28. Children bring life to the soul.

Red Phoenix

#29. She did the "we have mysterious hand gestures that make us giggle" thing.

Elizabeth Scott

#30. We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?

Jeb Hensarling

#31. The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated by rote; but profound ideas must be recreated by will and imagination.

Robert Grudin