My Grandfather Quotes - Page 2

• I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Fathers Day, Future

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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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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• My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

  Indira Gandhi

  Funny, Success, Leadership

  "Taking Charge : Every Woman's Action Guide to Personal, Political and Professional Success". Book by Joan Steinau Lester )p. 76), 1996.

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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, Grandfather

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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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• I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• i was raped, too sexually assaulted in seventh grade, tenth grade. the summer after graduation, at a party i was 16 i was 14 i was 5 and he did it for three years i loved him i didn't even know him he was my best friend's brother, my grandfather, father, mommy's boyfriend, my date, my cousin, my coach i met him for the first time that night and- 4 guys took turns, and- i'm a boy and this happened to me, and- ...i got pregnant i gave up my daughter for adoption... did it happen to you, too?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Summer, Daughter, Cousin

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• Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Wall, Flower

  "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (pp. 156-157), 1953.

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• My dog, Ginger, is jumpy-like me-sensitive to sound and sudden movement. She wasn't that way at first, but not long after we got her, my grandfather told me to stand still outside and hold her leash tight. Then he shot a gun off by our feet, several times. "This is how girls learn to obey," he said, "how to be seen and not heard."

  Mira Bartok

  Girl, Dog, Bullying

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• I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

  Christian Bale

  Attitude, Dad, Father

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.

  King Hussein I

  Strong, Grandfather, Legacy

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• My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.

  Michel Gondry

  Song, Home, Garden

  Interview with Sandra Hebron, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2007.

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• My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Uncles, Grandfather, Navy

  Dave Van Ronk (2013). “The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir”, p.4, Da Capo Press

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• It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.

  Lyle Lovett

  Girl, Grandfather, Corn

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• I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico. We actually hung out with them last summer, and it was awesome. But I wish my grandfather had taught my dad Spanish when he was younger so he could've taught me when I was younger, and sometimes he does, too. It's a shame.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Summer, Cousin, Dad

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• I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Cancer, Science, Suffering

  "The Legacy of Great Science". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. March 6, 1991.

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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 put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

  Whitley Strieber

  Christmas, Writing, Years

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• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

  Dan Fogelberg

  Girl, Guitar, Dancing

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• My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

  Erik Estrada

  Couple, Hands, Years

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• This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Depressing, People, Grandfather

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• I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

  Lloyd Banks

  Grandfather, Able, Shame

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• The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

  David Miliband

  Wedding, Aunt, Hands

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

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• I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

  Illeana Douglas

  Men, Grandfather, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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, Grandfather, Stones

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

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