Father Grenville

Famous quotes containing the words father and/or grenville:

    “Do they know they’re old,
    These two who are my father and my mother
    Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?”
    —Elizabeth Jennings (b. 1926)

    “At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
    And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
    ‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)