My Dead Grandfather Quotes

#1. An old liar told me here
To think ahead and save my money.
I should have spent it on ribbons.
I should have learned the tune my dead grandfather played
When the daft wife heard him resounding
In the deep pine woods in early November.

Menzies McKillop

#2. It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a house full of ... I don't know, anybody. Cecil Beaton, Diana Cooper ... And there I am sitting down with these creatures of the 20th century, and it was normal to us.

Manolo Blahnik

#3. I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

Andre Gide

#4. The best Christmas present you can give to your dead grandfather is not showing up until Easter. And telling no one about it. Especially not yourself.

Will Advise

#5. In China, where no man gets a title until he is dead; and that is a better way, after all, than with us. When a man does something very good there, they give a title of nobility to his father, who is dead, or to his grandfather.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.

Victor Davis Hanson

#7. The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws ...

Stephen Fry

#8. I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very little memory of him. All my other grandparents were dead by the time I was of any age to remember anything.

Robert Barry

#9. Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

Suzanne La Follette

#10. Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead.

Fred Chappell

#11. Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we, Anne? I want to know. It's pretty safe ain't it?

L.M. Montgomery

#12. Pizza is no longer on my diet.

John Catsimatidis

#13. Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

Julian Clary

#14. You surround the dead with veneration and memory, you dream of immortality, and in your myths and legends there's always someone being resurrected, conquering death. But were your esteemed late great-grandfather really to suddenly rise from the grave and order a beer, panic would ensue.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#15. Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness.

Robert D. Hales

#16. I think when somebody goes to the movies and they spend their money and they take the girl out, the family, they want to have a good time. You don't always want to be hit over the head with history or how bad society is.

Ice Cube

#17. You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

Ralph Steadman

#18. The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. Most of the questions people asked you, he felt, were there to fill up dead space, curtail your movements, divert your energy and attention. Anyway, my grandfather and his emotions were never really on speaking terms.

Michael Chabon