Grandfather Quotes - Page 17

• I was getting worried I may not become a grandfather, but the Lord has blessed me.

  Rod Stewart

  Blessed, May, Worried

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• My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

  Clarence Thomas

  Grandmother, People, Sixth Grade

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• I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

  Christopher Walken

  Uncles, Father, Long

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• A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Girl, Baby, Grandmother

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1994). “The Little House Book of Memories”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

  Felicia Day

  Children, Guy, Nuclear

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

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• The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

  Chris Hardwick

  Found, Worst, Dies

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• One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!

  Groucho Marx

  Grandmother, Men, Want

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• My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls.

  Greg Kinnear

  Girl, Brother, Uncles

  "Greg Kinnear Learns His Little Ladies’ Language" by Anya Leon, celebritybabies.people.com. April 01, 2010.

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• As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

  Armie Hammer

  Oil, California, Flukes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Ocean, Men

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• My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there.

  Ron Richards

  Funny, Humorous, Giving

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• We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

  Wendell Berry

  Reading, Years, Machines

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food”, p.74, Counterpoint Press

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• She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Father, Might

  Julia Quinn (2010). “Ten Things I Love About You”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. To truly appreciate life we must remember that nothing lasts for ever and take nothing we enjoy for granted. In so doing we stay grateful and happy for all our good fortune.

  Jose Saramago

  Goodbye, Gratitude, Grateful

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• I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

  Father, Shoes, Able

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• My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Home, My Grandfather, Felt

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• I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Son, Dna

  "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview with Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Government, Cities

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• That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so?

  Kaye Gibbons

  Jobs, Fear, Believe

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• It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor.

  Will Graham

  Emotional, Fruit, Labor

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• To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

  Will Graham

  Blessing, Dying, Finishing

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• My grandfather was a small-town doctor and he used to say that I was missing a gene that told me that some giant risk I am about to take with my life is both stupid and dangerous. I'm grateful for this. Everything worthwhile that we create in life requires a leap of faith.

  Paul Budnitz

  Stupid, Grateful, Doctors

  "Say 'Ello' to the Guy Who Invented an Alternative to Facebook" by Alyssa Newcomb, abcnews.go.com. September 30, 2014.

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• Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, "I love you, sweetheart." She responded rather blandly: "I know." I asked, "How do you know that I love you?" Because! You're my grandfather!

  Russell M. Nelson

  Love, Years, Granddaughter

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• The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.

  Lisa Lutz

  Running, Weed, Gun

  Lisa Lutz, David Hayward (2011). “Heads You Lose”, p.21, Penguin

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