“It never occurred to me that you might not realize he was your father or grandfather, or great grandsire or whatever.”

“The Aga Khan's team hope that Sinndar will follow this route rather than that of his maternal grandsire Lashkari.”

“On the paternal side, Affirmed's grandsire, Raise a Native, was undefeated in four races before becoming injured and having to retire.”

“I owe everything to my dear grandfather who took me in when I had nothing and no one to turn to.”

“Your grandfathers of the Ojibwa did not see the Megis again until it once more rose.”

“Even more explicit was the positivist interpretation of Galileo given towards the end of the century by the great Viennese historian and critic of mechanics, Ernst Mach, the grandfather of the modern school of logical empiricism.”

“This little ditty oft quoted by my granddad while shaving with his cut-throat razor came winging its way from out of my dim and distant past.”

“My granddad and uncle worked together in a sweet factory, so always had a healthy supply of coconut ice, jelly babies and sherbet dip.”

“Your dad wears a watch, and your granddad wears a watch, your accountant, your garbage man, and the grocery store cashier all wear watches.”

“I haven't been fishing since my granddaddy took me when I was just a little girl down in Alabama.”

“It was the granddaddy of the modern horror films. Most of the modern horror films take their lead from that.”

“They would listen to stories, sometimes invented by granny or granddaddy, about wonderful events in times recent or long past.”

“Garnett is going to feel like a grandpappy if hordes of high-schoolers continue to bust past college and into the league.”

“My grandpappy told my pappy, who told me, who told you, that Old Joe's been hunted by every Mundee.”

“Don't remembah my grandmammy and grandpappy, but my master was they master.”

“Your granny and granda in Chicago hope you had a great day and hope to see you soon.”

“They'll be with their grandma and granda, so they'll have a wonderful time.”

“My granda sat me on his knee and told me tales that filled me with wonder.”

“I arrived back at the house and saw my grandpa watering the flowers outside.”

“Grandma and grandpa were there too, only in like a sort of ghostly insubstantial form.”

“When my grandpa first started talking about his own death, I hushed him and told him not to worry.”

“I believe that my grandpapa gave me a similar speech propped on his lap while I was still in diapers and drooling on myself.”

“And the grandpapa is undoubtedly crazy and calm but funny in an unknowing and indirect way.”

“I am a papa now, I have an heir and now I'm going to be a grandpapa.”

“It was more or less me and a busload of grandmas and grandpas for seventeen days.”

“I watched as grandmas walked through fire, grandpas, priests, truck drivers, young mothers, rockers, you name it.”

“All the fish have mommies and daddies and grandmas and grandpas all the way back for a jillion years.”