Grandfather Quotes - Page 21

• In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'

  Herman Cain

  Doe, Care, Vernacular

  "'Arrested Development' Creator Explains How Herman Cain Inspired Season 4—and Cain Responds" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.

  Anson Mount

  Wall, Military, Years

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.

  Jen Kirkman

  Mom, Kids, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

  Jessie Ware

  Cry, Made, Synagogue

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• I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.

  Hannah Simone

  Thinking, House, Greek

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hannah Simone". www.esquire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

  Larry Page

  Thinking, Iron, Weapons

  "How Google's Larry Page became a responsible entrepreneur" by Carol Sanford, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2014.

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• You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

  Black Elk

  Rain, Clouds, Storm

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• Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

  William Feather

  Grandparent, Principles, Wells

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Aunt, Portraits

  "Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2008.

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• My grandfather got me mad and I peed inside his orange juice and asked him if it's tangy.

  Cam'ron

  Family, Orange Juice, Mad

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• The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

  America Ferrera

  Patriotic, Names, America

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

  Rupert Everett

  India, Three, Generations

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• My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

  Tyson Chandler

  Tree, Peaches, Dirt

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• My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Christian, Healing, My Grandfather

  Interview with Simon&Schuster, www.simonandschuster.com.

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• Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

  Creed Bratton

  Grandmother, Parent, My Grandfather

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• I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

  Yoko Ono

  Japan, Important, Born

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• My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

  Clare Bowen

  Beautiful, Grandmother, Grandparent

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• Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.

  Peter Agre

  Mother, Support, Age

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• We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

  Greta Gerwig

  California, Poor, Grew Up

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2010.

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• My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hands, Play, Too Late

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

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• I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Four, Seven

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• My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

  Alexis Denisof

  Mother, New York, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

  Ricky Jay

  Guy, Friendly, Levels

  "So Many Weird Worlds: A Conversation with Ricky Jay" by Cole Louison, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

  Jon Meacham

  Military, War, Book

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• During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

  Amin Maalouf

  Uncles, Moving, Egypt

  "A son of the road" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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