Top 36 Quotes About My Grandad
#1. My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel.
Stewart Lee
#2. Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family.
Milton Jones
#3. It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending time with my family, and music has always bonded us.
Jessie J.
#4. Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid.
Holly Black
#6. Grandad has a long and earnest conversation with his grandchild. He says, you are noisy and wiggly and will be sent back if you don't pull herself together ... The baby smiles complacently. She has him exactly where she wants him.
Pam Brown
#7. When my children were young, one of the treats promised by their grandparents was a ride in Grandad's car.
Laurie Graham
#8. Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief.
Jamie Redknapp
#9. It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
Holly Black
#10. An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.
M. Scott Peck
#11. There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.
Theodore Roosevelt
#12. I THINK NOT. I WASN'T CUT OUT TO BE A FATHER, AND CERTAINLY NOT A GRANDAD. I HAVEN'T GOT THE RIGHT KIND OF KNEES.
Terry Pratchett
#13. Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.
Veronica Roth
#14. Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.
Simon Sinek
#15. I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.
Peter Weller
#16. You better get over here with my car," Grandad says. "Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it." "Sorry," I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. "Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I'd like to see.
Holly Black
#17. We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
Swami Vivekananda
#18. It was con; my mind was blank; I only wanted a halfpint of Grandad and six or seven tall cool beers ...
Charles Bukowski
#19. work and carried on until she was seventy-two. Grandad worked in a nearby mill
Beverley Callard
#20. IMAGINE! See it, feel it, believe it!
You can do anything, if you truly believe in yourself."
Ronaldo's Grandad
Former captain of the North Pole Flying Team, and very wise reindeer.
Maxine Sylvester
#22. I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm already a grandad, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
#23. The universe whispers, "I love you.
Akemi G
#26. When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.
Michael Haneke
#28. We were surrounded by thirty-foot-tall giants who were about to kill us. Then the sky opened up, and the gods descended."
"Grandad," the kids said, "you are full of schist."
"I'm not kidding!" he protested.
Rick Riordan
#30. Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.
Holly Black
#31. If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
Tenzing Norgay
#32. Happiness is Grandad saving links to cat videos in a Word document so he can share them when she visits.
Carys Bray
#33. Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
Jon Meacham
#34. A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
Holly Black
#35. Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically
an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be?
Seriously, what else could go wrong?
Holly Black
#36. The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.
Paul Weller
