grandfathers
Synonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.
How great the grandfathers are, but how regretful what they left behind.