Grandfather Died Quotes:

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

- Norman Cousins

topic: Inspirational, Life, Heartbreak, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Condolences

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

- Gavin DeGraw

topic: War, Hero, Hands, War Hero, Homage

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

- Julian Clary

topic: Mean, Thinking, Years, Grandfather Died

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

- Ray Bradbury

source: "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (pp. 156-157), 1953.

topic: Children, Wall, Flower, Creative People, My Grandfather

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Motivational, Cute, Growing Up, Live And Learn, My Grandfather

I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

- Chris Colfer

source: "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

topic: Cute, Nice, Car, Father Died, Hybrid

I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very little memory of him. All my other grandparents were dead by the time I was of any age to remember anything.

- Robert Barry

topic: Memories, Grandparent, Grandfather, Grandfather Died

After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there was an anthology without any names attached to it and I read a poem called Spellbound and I somehow attached it to my grandfather's death and I thought my grandfather had written it.

- Edward Hirsch

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Book, Names, House, Grandfather Died

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

- Gertrude B. Elion

source: "The Legacy of Great Science". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. March 6, 1991.

topic: Cancer, Science, Suffering, Father Died, My Grandfather

My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.

- Jen Kirkman

topic: Mom, Kids, Long, Widowed, Grandfather Died

This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our fathers and grandfathers died in this battle [in Normandy], yes. I understand that the Americans and the British and French celebrate one of the greatest and most important military victories in history. And I understand this. I don't see a reasonable place for the Germans. We watch everything on the television with compassion and sympathy.

- Manfred Rommel

topic: Brother, Father, Military, Normandy, Fathers And Grandfathers

My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

source: "Half of a Yellow Sun". Interview with Rina Palta, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2006.

topic: War, Writing, Profound, Grandfather Died

I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.

- Dwight Yoakam

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Song, Prayer, Couple, Grandfather Died

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.

- Norm MacDonald

source: "Comedy gold: Norm Macdonald's Me Doing Standup" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2013.

topic: Funny, Dad, Guy, Father Died, My Dad Died