Grandfather Quotes - Page 15

• Grandad has a long and earnest conversation with his grandchild. He says, you are noisy and wiggly and will be sent back if you don't pull herself together....The baby smiles complacently. She has him exactly where she wants him.

  Pam Brown

  Baby, Grandchildren, Long

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• My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is true: at this time of year, when days are short and dark, and one hardly dares to open the newspapers, I turn, not vainly either, to the great creators of the past for distraction, solace and help.

  Paul Johnson

  Life, Art, Dark

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• My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Mother, Technology, Engineering

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• I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Mohammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father Ali Ibn Abi-Talib.

  Husayn ibn Ali

  Father, Tyrants, Evil

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• A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

  John Howard

  Thinking, Doe, Conservative

  "The Howard Era". Book by Keith Windschuttle and Ray Evans, 2009.

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• Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.

  John Adams

  Mother, Father, Blood

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.392

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• My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn't have any hands or numbers. He says it's very accurate. I asked him what time it was. You can guess what he told me.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Hands

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• I was watching the Superbowl with my 92 year old grandfather. The team scored a touchdown. They showed the instant replay. He thought they scored another one. I was gonna tell him, but I figured the game HE was watching was better.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Team, Humor

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• We have started calling him grandfather.

  Yuvraj Singh

  Calling, Cricket

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• Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

  Bob Hartley

  Book, Class, Library

  Source: www.braddockavenuebooks.com

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• I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative way. It made me feel weird about the way that we treat people that are famous, and it made me feel weird about fame in general.

  Zoe Kazan

  People, Way, Fame

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard - after that he went downhill very quickly.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Months

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• Sometimes I wonder what my grandfather would think of what I do, he spent his whole life in the kebab business, was buried with all his equipment, probably turning in his grave.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

  Robert Bly

  Mother, Father, Sibling

  Source: www.utne.com

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• When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed wire surrounded it, spray paint on the ancient walls claimed it as private property, and the moat where my grandfather and his men had grown crops - in desperation as the siege's hunger bit - was completely overgrown with bushes and trees.

  Chris Cleave

  Wall, Men, Tree

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test' - Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview with Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I suppose I had developed a sense of reverence for the locations he described in his memoirs and letters - the forts and the high emplacements. I had expected them to have been preserved in some way.

  Chris Cleave

  Tree, Location, Letters

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof - a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.

  Chris Cleave

  Grandmother, Men, Dating

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Father, Player, Wind

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Air

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• My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.

  Norm MacDonald

  Funny, Dad, Guy

  "Comedy gold: Norm Macdonald's Me Doing Standup" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

  Chris Colfer

  Cute, Nice, Car

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at concerts and the musicians who played on Sunday evenings on street corners. By the time I grew up in the '80s, all of this was a thing of the past. I lived vicariously through his stories and often wondered what it would have felt like to have been part of his generation.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Sunday, Past, Musical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• [Bill] Clinton's voice, his manner of speaking and his terminology, "Back in those days... Yeah, back those days... You know, we didn't have the internet back then." My grandfather said, "Back in those days, we didn't have automobiles".

  Rush Limbaugh

  Voice, Bills, Internet

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, People, Farming

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• When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.

  Edward Norton

  Uncles, Thinking, Parent

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