Fathers And Grandfathers Quotes - Page 2

• I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

  Susana Martinez

  Father, Grandmother, Mexico

  "AP Exclusive: NM gov.'s grandfather was US citizen". www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2012.

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• My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

  Pete Seeger

  Mother, Father, Piano

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Dream, Father, War

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• My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teacher, Father, Impact

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.

  M. R. DeHaan

  Truth, Father, Confusion

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• This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.

  John Ratzenberger

  Father, Hippie, Party

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• Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.

  Friedrich Engels

  Horse, Father, Stupid

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• As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Pain, Father, Birth Defects

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• I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Prayer, Father, Way

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our fathers and grandfathers died in this battle [in Normandy], yes. I understand that the Americans and the British and French celebrate one of the greatest and most important military victories in history. And I understand this. I don't see a reasonable place for the Germans. We watch everything on the television with compassion and sympathy.

  Manfred Rommel

  Brother, Father, Military

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• The thing my father was proudest of was the Ayres clock at the intersection of Washington Street and Meridian. That made him so happy. Ayres complained because he wouldn't send them a bill. There was stuff my family had done there - particularly my father and grandfather - that was quite permanent and wonderful.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Done, Bills

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• My father and grandfather were stockbrokers, and they would actually take stock certificates from a vault, give it to a runner, and send it to another vault. Then somebody said, "Let's digitize it and have one vault." Now the DTCC clears and settles almost everything, and the cost of doing a trade is a tenth of what it was before.

  Jamie Dimon

  Father, Giving, Cost

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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