32 Movie Quotes about Grandfathers (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: September 3, 2025

Memorable quotes about grandfathers, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 My grandfather didn't build any condos with his bare hands.

Adam Sandler as Happy Gilmore in Happy Gilmore

2 Yeah, that's how it start out, colleagues. Me and your grandfather was colleagues. Next thing you know, he's on top of me in the shed, pumping and a-sweating.

Eddie Murphy as Grandma Klump in The Nutty Professor (1996)

3 Following in his grandfather's footschtops, footschtops! -Oh! Footsteps!

Quote from Young Frankenstein (1974)

4 Is there a library in town? -Yes. -I suppose you wouldn't know where that is. -Well, roughly. My grandfather built it.

Quote from The Philadelphia Story (1940)

5 I'd like to read this book, but I'm kind of afraid. I had a grandfather who didn't think much of reading. He always said if you read too many books, your head would fall off. -You start the first chapter, sir, and I'll hold on to your head.

Marcie in It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown

6 My grandpappy was always an overeager young whippersnapper, and one day he accidentally tunneled into the Grand Canyon.

Gopher in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

7 Grandfather! Come on. We're going on a picnic. Get aboard, Grandpa. Come on.

Quote from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

8 Where were you 60 years ago? -He was a glint in his great grandfather's eye!

Charlie Chaplin as King Shahdov in A King in New York (1957)

9 This staff trained me, my father and grandfather. This stick breaking can only mean we've come to the end of our family line.

Quote from Kung Fu Zombie

10 Wow. If you ever need a guinea pig, let me know. My grandfather was in the Tuskegee experiments.

Dave Chappelle as Thurgood Jenkins in Half Baked