Great Grandson Quotes

#1. I have the most devoted and loyal following. I could probably type up my grocery list and they'd all want to read it. I love that they're willing to let me go wherever I need to go as an author, and they're happy to come along for the ride as the reader.

Jodi Picoult

#2. I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?

William Butler Yeats

#3. Did you read where the great-grandson of Nathan Hale got married this weekend? Give me liberty or give me death. That's what the groom will be saying in about one month.

J.R. Moehringer

#4. You never know what a day will bring.

Today brought a note that my great grandson wants me to come for a visit. I am going just as soon as the snow is off the mountains.

Marie F. Martin

#5. I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer.

Joel Edgerton

#6. I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

Doris Lessing

#7. Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

Neil Gaiman

#8. He was as uncontainable as a handful of water: if you squeezed, it trickled away.

Lynn Cullen

#9. Oh, Brown was our lion and Tubman our fox, great-grandson!

Terry Bisson

#10. Now, I call this nice. I got my daughter, my granddaughter, and my great-grandson, all in the same room. What more could a man ask of life?" He took a Welsh cake.

Ken Follett

#11. This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

Joseph Goebbels

#12. A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#13. I will say, I'm a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool.

Jesse Plemons

#14. Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

Edmund S. Muskie

#15. I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

Jill Scott

#16. I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out ...

Wislawa Szymborska