Grandfather Sir

Famous quotes containing the words grandfather and/or sir:

“I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time,
Each form is exquisite, each block sublime.
Or good, or bad,—disfigur’d, or deprav’d,—
All art, is at its resurrection sav’d;
All crown’d with glory in the critic’s heav’n,
Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.”
—Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)