“I've never had a grandmother, a great-grandmother, nor a great-great-grandmother. I never even had a mother. I have certainly missed a great deal of love thereby, but fortune has compensated me by not giving me the capacity to hate anyone, neither nations nor individuals. If candlesticks and church bells have been plundered from my ancestors, then I'm only grateful that I'm so ignorant about genealogy.”

Ólafur
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I've never had a grandmother, a great-grandmother, nor a great-great-grandmother. I never even had a mother. I have cer…" by Halldór Laxness?
Halldór Laxness photo
Halldór Laxness 216
Icelandic author 1902–1998

Related quotes

Charles Perrault photo
Katharine Hepburn photo

“Jane nodded, and she mentally thanked the several-greats-grandmother who had decided she’d rather risk royal displeasure than give up a book.”

Tina Connolly American writer

Source: Ironskin (2012), Chapter 9, “The Misses Ingel” (p. 149)

Michael Pollan photo

“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”

Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism
Anne Lamott photo

“I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Edward St. Aubyn photo
Roald Dahl photo
Archilochus photo

Related topics