Great Grandfather

Famous quotes containing the word grandfather:

“The pitiless rugs had nothing to say,
the grandfather clock went on with its knitting,
the disposal vomited up chives and clover.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“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)