20 QUOTES ABOUT GRANDFATHERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE

1. Mark Twain  -„My grandfather was a Quaker, and a man of peace; but when he saw a dog fight, he always stopped to look at it—and he always took the side of the little dog.”” 

 2. Abraham Lincoln  -„I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother… and my grandfather’s stories of the frontier.”

 3.  Booker T. Washington  -„My grandfather was a man of strong character; he taught me the dignity of labor and the power of perseverance.” 

4. Theodore Roosevelt -„My grandfather was a man who believed in action. He used to say, ‘Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

5. „Thomas Edison -„My grandfather was a shoemaker, and though he had little schooling, he had a mind full of curiosity. He showed me that learning never stops, even for an old man.”

6 .Laura Ingalls Wilder -„Grandpa’s stories of the old days made the past alive for me. He was the bridge between then and now.”

7. Lucy Maud Montgomery -„Grandfather’s old armchair by the fire held more wisdom than all the books in Avonlea.” 

8. Sir John A. Macdonald  -„My grandfather taught me that true leadership begins with listening – even to those who cannot vote for you yet.”*

9. Charles Dickens  -„A grandfather’s love is the closest thing we know to the love of Providence.” 

10. Queen Victoria -„I attribute my strength of character to my grandfather, King George III, whose trials taught me resilience.”

11. Thomas Hardy -„The old man’s fiddle sang of Wessex hills, and in its strings I heard my grandfather’s voice.”

12. „Rudyard Kipling -‘My grandfather’s tales of India were my first geography lessons – and my last in humility.”

13. Henry Lawson  -„Granddad’s yarns by the bush campfire made the Southern Cross seem nearer.”

14. Banjo Paterson  -„The old stockman’s hands were gnarled like gum trees, but his stories smoothed them young again.”

15. Dame Nellie Melba  -„My grandfather’s Scottish ballads were my first singing lessons – and my truest.”

16. Alfred Deakin -„A nation’s character is built in grandfathers’ workshops more than in parliaments.”

17. Thomas Jefferson -„The surveyor’s chain my grandfather laid across Virginia became the measure of my own ambition.”

18. Benjamin Franklin -” My grandfather’s favorite proverb, ‘Early to bed and early to rise,’ a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

19. Theodore Roosevelt Sr -„My father’s father taught me that wealth obliges service – a lesson that built hospitals and museums.”  

20. Walt Whitman -„Grandfather’s Dutch hands, gnarled from shipbuilding, shaped my first visions of America’s strength.”