Grandfather Quotes

• My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

  Kevin Johnson

  Motivational, Basketball, Responsibility

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• My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

  Pam Grier

  Men, Feminist, Firsts

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.

  William J. Clinton

  Commitment, Race, People

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• When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

  Tommy Shaw

  Song, Sister In Law, Giving

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

  Loretta Lynn

  Want, Married, Being Married

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.194, Vintage

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• My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

  David Hyde Pierce

  Dad, Actors, Knows

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• My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

  Forest Whitaker

  Summer, Pigs, Grandparent

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. December 2006.

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• Rock is my child and my grandfather.

  Chuck Berry

  Children, Rocks, My Children

  "Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll pioneer, dead at 90" by Ralph Ellis, Todd Leopold, Tony Marco, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2017.

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• I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

  John Forbes Nash

  Memories, Grandmother, Play

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• You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Patriotic, Glad, Laborers

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.45, Vanderbilt University Press

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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 vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  War, People, Stories

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• I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

  Robin Tunney

  Aunt, Chicago, Married

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• My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!

  Anne Baxter

  Wedding, Night, Style

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• I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

  William Gaddis

  Player, Piano Music, Piano Playing

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• I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

  Brad Pitt

  Grandmother, Names, Grandparent

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• When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

  Ogden Nash

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.

  Adam Petty

  Kings, Dad, Butlers

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• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Grandma, Grandmother

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Self

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

  Alex Haley

  Life, Children, Grandmother

  Reader's Digest, 1987.

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• Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

  Black Elk

  Voice, Earth, Spirit

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Kindness, Children, Life Lesson

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• My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Husband, Father, Teenager

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