Grandfather

Famous quotes containing the word grandfather:

“And then finally there’s 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)

“I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“No. I am not the law in your mind,
the grandfather of watchfulness.
I am the law of your members,
the kindred of blackness and impulse.
See. Your hand shakes.
It is not palsy or booze.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)