Grandfather Sir

Famous quotes containing the words grandfather and/or sir:

“My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill,
And fighting was not his trade;
But his rusty pike’s in the cabin still,
With Hessian blood on the blade.””
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)

“We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.”
—Humphrey, Sir Gilbert (c.1537–1583)