Famous quotes containing the words grandfather and/or clock:
“And then finally there’s your grandmother
Sweeping the dust of the nineteenth century
Into the twentieth, and your grandfather plucking
A straw out of the broom to pick his teeth.”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)
“Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)