Granddaddy's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Carolyn Brown

#6. You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

Joni Mitchell

#7. 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

#8. Africa will become an out-of-reach commodity instead of the expendable refuse heap we've treated her as.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#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. 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

#11. The smallest moments: they return, dwell, endure.

Colum McCann

#12. 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

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

Wesley Strick

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

Alveda King

#15. Our thoughts dictate how we feel; so it is important to recognize that we are as we think we are

Jeremy Aldana

#16. I'll probably never have children because I don't believe in touching people for any reason.

Paula Poundstone

#17. Price of peace could only be valued by
people who had suffered loss in the war.

Toba Beta

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

Michael Ritchie

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

Theodore Bikel

#20. 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

#21. 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.

#22. A new Dragon's Egg?" asked

Melissa De La Cruz

#23. [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

#24. Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

Joan Armatrading

#25. Earlier in life, I put family in front of faith. I've fixed that. But I always tried to keep work fourth on the list. I was proud when [my wife] Nellie told an interviewer, 'I never could tell whether John had a good practice or a bad practice, because he never brought it home'

John Wooden

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

Mike Walker

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

Hunter S. Jones

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

Jeaniene Frost

#29. 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

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

Eve Langlais

#31. When we ascribe credit for an invention, determining who should be most noted by history, one criterion is looking at whose contributions turned out to have the most influence.

Walter Isaacson

#32. And when white moths were on the wing and moth-like stars were flickering out

W.B.Yeats

#33. 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

#34. Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.

Denis Waitley

#35. 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

#36. 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