Famous quotes containing the word grandfather:
“I dont know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“And then finally theres your grandmother
Sweeping the dust of the nineteenth century
Into the twentieth, and your grandfather plucking
A straw out of the broom to pick his teeth.”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)
“My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill,
And fighting was not his trade;
But his rusty pikes in the cabin still,
With Hessian blood on the blade.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (18461925)
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