Saturday Night Live (1993)
Quotes about grandfather
A collection of quotes on the topic of grandfather, father, likeness, greatness.
Quotes about grandfather

Source: Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000), p. 25

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
As quoted in The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln (1896) by Ida Tarbell
Posthumous attributions

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
Quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow (1955), Speaker's Book of Epigrams and Witticisms
Misattributed

Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 3, hadith number 355
Sunni Hadith

Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 9, Chapter 6, verse 53, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/9/6/53
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights

Letter to Harry O. Fischer (late February 1937), in Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, pp. 416-417
Non-Fiction, Letters

Requested epitaph, quoted in The Economist obituary, August 18th 2007, p. 76

Nobel Lecture (1998)

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 219, of his "angel-fishes"—girls between the ages of ten and sixteen whom he befriended after the death of his wife

Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī - The Book of Intellect and Ignorance. Ch.17
Religous Wisdom

Speech in Reply to Senator Stephen Douglas in the Lincoln-Douglas debates http://www.bartleby.com/251/1003.html of the 1858 campaign for the U.S. Senate, at Chicago, Illinois (10 July 1858)
1850s, Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858)
Context: Now, it happens that we meet together once every year, sometimes about the fourth of July, for some reason or other. These fourth of July gatherings I suppose have their uses. … We are now a mighty nation; we are thirty, or about thirty, millions of people, and we own and inhabit about one-fifteenth part of the dry land of the whole earth. We run our memory back over the pages of history for about eighty-two years, and we discover that we were then a very small people in point of numbers, vastly inferior to what we are now, with a vastly less extent of country, with vastly less of everything we deem desirable among men; we look upon the change as exceedingly advantageous to us and to our posterity, and we fix upon something that happened away back, as in some way or other being connected with this rise of prosperity. We find a race of men living in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers; they were iron men; they fought for the principle that they were contending for; and we understood that by what they then did it has followed that the degree of prosperity which we now enjoy has come to us. We hold this annual celebration to remind ourselves of all the good done in this process of time, of how it was done and who did it, and how we are historically connected with it; and we go from these meetings in better humor with ourselves, we feel more attached the one to the other, and more firmly bound to the country we inhabit. In every way we are better men in the age, and race, and country in which we live, for these celebrations. But after we have done all this we have not yet reached the whole. There is something else connected with it. We have besides these, men descended by blood from our ancestors — among us, perhaps half our people, who are not descendants at all of these men; they are men who have come from Europe — German, Irish, French and Scandinavian — men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence, they find that those old men say that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration; and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.

“My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln”
1850s, Autobiographical Sketch Written for Jesse W. Fell (1859)
Context: My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Virginia, to Kentucky about 1781 or 1782, where a year or two later he was killed by the Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, Pennsylvania.<!--p.32

2013, "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony (August 2013)

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 210

In A Man Without a Country (2005) p. 80–81 Vonnegut makes a very similar statement:
How do humanists feel about Jesus? I say of Jesus, as all humanists do. "If what he said is good, and so much of it is absolutely beautiful, what does it matter if he was God or not?"
But if Christ hadn't delivered the Sermon on the Mount, with its message of mercy and pity, I wouldn't want to be a human being.
I'd just as soon be a rattlesnake.
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

INTERVIEW: Pär Sundström – Sabaton https://distortedsoundmag.com/interview-par-sundstrom-sabaton/ (March 3, 2016)

“Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary’s Grandfather/Acheron)”
Source: The Dream Hunter
Source: All Fall Down

“You cannot simply ask whether people look like their demon grandfather!”
Source: Nothing but Shadows

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 32, An Unlucky Bend in the Road

pg. 96
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume I, The Founders

a note from Saint Cloud, 1898; as quoted in Edvard Much – behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 115
1896 - 1930
As quoted by Brian Masters (2011), Killing for Company, Random House, p. 189, ISBN 1446428737
'So death was a nice thing,' I thought. 'Then why does it make me miserable?'
As quoted by Brian Masters (2011), Killing for Company, Random House, p. 46, ISBN 1446428737

Enjoy my Interview with Ridley Pearson https://ethanjonesbooks.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/enjoy-my-interview-with-ridley-pearson/ (January 25, 2018)
February “DISGRACE”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)

Quote in Charlotte's letter, to her father, c. 1941-43; as cited in 'Life in Pictures Charlotte Salomon and her art beyond life tragedies' https://arthive.com/publications/2850~Life_in_Pictures_Charlotte_Salomon_and_her_art_beyond_life_tragedies, on Art-smart
Charlotte wrote her father from South-France, about the events with her grandparents where she stayed. Then she took up her brush with the intention to realize an ambitious plan of creating an autobiographical novel in pictures.

Steinar addressing King Kristian
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)

"Mary Tyler Moore" Interview by Diane Werts at Archive of American Television (23 October 1997) http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/mary-tyler-moore

“It’s in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it’s a tradition I want to pass on to my son.”
On his work with his vineyard in Northern Arizona and wine label of the same name, Caduceus — reported in Jon Dolan (August 2006) "33 Things You Should Know About Tool" http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=2002, Blender, Alpha Media Group Inc.

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

‘Preface’ to Derek Walker-Smith, The Protectionist Case in the 1840s (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1933), pp. vii-viii.
1920s-1950s

Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 56
Some questions of interpretation
"The Idol's Eye", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 32.
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949)

in Cuba
BBC radio interview [December 13, 2006]
2007, 2008
The Paris Review interview (1958)

Autobiographical Notes (1970)

Gertrude B. Elion, Quotes at goodreads.com https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7793243.Gertrude_B_Elion

Vest, Stephen M., Spring 2008, "Welcome New Members Compatriots", The SAR Magazine, Vol. 102, No.4, p. 46.
Son of the American Revolution RI Chapter 2007 Ceremony.

“The courtiers tried every trick to lure or force him into making complaints against Tiberius; always, however, without success. He not only failed to show any interest in the murder of his relatives, but affected an amazing indifference to his own ill-treatment, behaving so obsequiously to his adoptive grandfather and to the entire household, that someone said of him, very neatly: "Never was there a better slave, or a worse master!"”
Haec omnibus insidiis temptatus elicientium cogentiumque se ad querelas nullam umquam occasionem dedit, perinde obliterato suorum casu ac si nihil cuiquam accidisset, quae vero ipse pateretur incredibili dissimulatione transmittens tantique in avum et qui iuxta erant obsequii, ut non immerito sit dictum nec servum meliorem ullum nec deteriorem dominum fuisse.
Source: The Twelve Caesars, Gaius Caligula, Ch. 10

How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)

“Now I am a grandfather, I am very content. I can focus on improving the economy in Taiwan now.”
After his daughter gave birth to his grandson, October 7, 2002
Pet Phrases, 2002

“Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: "A truck!"”
E=MO² (1985)

Address at a Swedish Colonial Society luncheon in Philadelphia (9 April 2001).
Books, articles, and speeches

“Is it on your grandmother’s or grandfather’s side that you are descended from an ape?”
To Thomas Henry Huxley, debating Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/evolution/how-did-evol-theory-develop/the-story/index.html

letter to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr http://digitalcollections.pacific.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/muirletters/id/12500/rec/1 (perhaps Autumn 1870); published in William Federic Badè, The Life and Letters of John Muir http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/life_and_letters/default.aspx (1924), chapter 8: Yosemite, Emerson, and the Sequoias
1870s

Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)

Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall: A Hoosier Salad (1925), Chapter VI

In "Jack LaLanne, Founder of Modern Fitness Movement, Dies at 96, New York Times."

" Bill Clinton Explains Why He Became a Vegan http://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-08-2013/bill-clinton-vegan.html" by Joe Conason, AARP The Magazine, August/September 2013.
2010s

Commencement address at University of Iowa.
Commencement address, University of Iowa http://www.bartleby.com/63/48/2748.html, Time (June 19, 1965)

1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1925/mar/06/industrial-peace in the House of Commons (6 March 1925).
1925
“The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.”
Source: Labyrinths of Reason (1988), Chapter 12: "Omniscience", p. 260