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• My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

  Temple Grandin

  Airplane, Pilots, Yaks

  Temple Grandin (2011). “The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's”, p.249, BookBaby

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• My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Moving, Book, Opportunity

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary’s Grandfather/Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Vengeance

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• My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Book, Writing, Men

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• You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?

  Henry Louis Gates

  Mean, Black, Firsts

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Running, Generations, Breaths

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• My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Father, Black, My Grandfather

  "The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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• As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.

  Arjun Rampal

  Running, Children, Ambition

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• My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

  Novak Djokovic

  My Grandfather

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• As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

  Andrew Cuomo

  Honey, Vinegar, Used

  "The (Real) Governator". Interview with Lisa Depaulo, www.gq.com. December 14, 2011.

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• When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

  J. J. Abrams

  Mean, Kids, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Survival, World, Ontario

  "Q&A: Dan Aykroyd Is Keeping Ghostbusters 3 Alive". Interview with Michael B. Dougherty, www.esquire.com. December 4, 2012.

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• Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Interesting, Acting

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• I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.

  Bryan Cranston

  Husband, Father, Want

  "Emmys 2012: 'Breaking Bad' Star Bryan Cranston on Season 5, a 'Bad' Movie, and the Kardashians". Interview with Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 23, 2012.

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• I always tell people, you know, [J.F.Kennedy's] grandfather was born in Ireland and he was Irish-Catholic, and I thought, so maybe I could someday try do what he did.

  Mike Pence

  People, Catholic, Trying

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

  Salman Rushdie

  Mother, Religious, Father

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• I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.

  Adam Sandler

  Father, Four, Driving

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• My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  War, Tanks, Desert

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• I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

  Renee Fleming

  Simple, Emotional, Research

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• My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things. So the freedoms that we talk about today, the liberties that we talk about today were the benefits that you got from discharging your responsibilities.

  Clarence Thomas

  Attitude, Responsibility, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.

  Charles Darwin

  Passion, Evil, Descent

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.33, OUP Oxford

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• In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

  Tea Obreht

  Memories, Stones, Take Me

  Tea Obreht (2011). “The Tiger's Wife”, p.3, Hachette UK

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• Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.

  Patrick Grant

  Hate, Integrity, Years

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• Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

  Lorine Niedecker

  Poetry, Desks, Trade

  Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy (2002). “Collected Works”, p.194, Univ of California Press

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• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Men, Doubt

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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