Granddaddy Quotes

• My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

  Alveda King

  Senior, Kings, Daddy

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• Me personally, I come from very, very humble beginnings - little, small town in Alabama, you know, staying at my granddaddy house. We really didn't have nothing.

  Gucci Mane

  Humble, House, Alabama

  "Gucci Mane Is Happy, Healthy - And Productive As Ever". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, Frannie Kelley, kuaf.com. December 21, 2016.

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• We allow it to be dumped into this community asset, which is our one and only atmosphere. So that has to change, and there's really only one entity that can do that. So we have proposed a cap-and-trade system to stop that unlimited pollution, to use the forces of the market to efficiently allocate scarce permits to allow CO2 into the atmosphere. That's just one of 500 things we need to do, but it's probably the granddaddy of them all.

  Jay Inslee

  Community, Atmosphere, Needs

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• Granddaddy can pick up a phone and call anyone in the world and they will take his call. But he doesn't know it.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Phones, World

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• I'm the granddaddy of this side. I'm the oldest person playing in the team, so I've got a mentoring role. I've been around the tracks and achieved a few things. I try to make sure that the younger players reach their full potential, and stay on the right track.

  Filo Tiatia

  Team, Player, Track

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.

  Christopher Fowler

  Fun, Home, Adventure

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• Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.

  Wesley Strick

  Snakes, Church, Legs

  "Fictional character: Max Cady". "Cape Fear", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• When I did Ben 10, I really didn't know anything about Ben 10. But when I went back to visit my son Pierre and told him what I'd just done, he said "You did a Ben 10?!?" and then he started yelling out to my grandson, "Luca, Luca, come here, Granddaddy did a Ben 10 show." You suddenly discover you're gratte-cul with a five-year-old, and that's pretty cool."

  David McCallum

  Son, Yelling, Years

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

  Theodore Bikel

  Stage

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• My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.

  Willie Nelson

  Jobs, School, Grandmother

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• [The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

  Donald Knuth

  History, Algorithms, Present Day

  Donald E. Knuth (2014). “Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms”, p.550, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.

  Josh Turner

  Valentines Day, Song, Years

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• Were in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

  Jeff Zucker

  Technology, Transition, Television

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• So that makes him, like, your fang granddaddy.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Fangs

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

  Michael Franti

  Creating, Band, Things I Love

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• I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

  Jimmy Dean

  Men, Hands, Jail

  "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.

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