Grandfather Sir

Famous quotes containing the words grandfather and/or sir:

“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
All Nature was degraded;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)