My Grandfather Quotes - Page 3

• Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'd abused my grandmother and my mother. He did things like shave my grandmother's head and lock her in a closet. With my mother's help, my grandmother finally left him.

  Deborah Pryce

  Mother, Growing Up, Domestic Violence

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• My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open,because you never know what's going to come your way.

  Bobbi Brown

  Eye, Grandfather, Important

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• When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

  Tommy Shaw

  Song, Sister In Law, Giving

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• My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

  Emanuel Celler

  Girl, Grandmother, Catholic

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• My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

  Emanuel Celler

  Usa, Political, Grandfather

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• When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was. I know I sound like my grandfather right now. We didn't have teeth! There were no questions marks, we just had words! What was I talking about? The Internet...Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.

  Dick Costolo

  Impact, Talking, Grandfather

  Dick Costolo's Commencement Address at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, www.c-span.org. May 4, 2013.

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• My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.

  Scott Ian

  Religious, Parent, Grandfather

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• I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

  Tim Scott

  Thinking, Years, Grandfather

  "GOP Rising Star Tim Scott on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2010.

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• My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.

  Vincent Schiavelli

  America, Kitchen, Grandfather

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• If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Mistake, Advice

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• My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Running, Country, Comedian

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• Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda.

  Alveda King

  Kings, Uncles, Father

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• I remember I was always enamored by and loved motorcycles as a kid. My grandfather had motorcycles and I remember going for a ride and then after that I was hooked. And then in first or second grade, I ganked or stole a book from the library just because it had a dirt bike with trails. It was one of those things where as a kid, the world is your oyster as far as what you can do, and you don't associate jobs and things with making money.

  Taylor Kinney

  Jobs, Book, Kids

  "Which 'Chicago Fire' star binges on YouTube fail videos?" by Matt Murray, www.today.com. September 24, 2013.

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• When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius Tullius. Tarquinius the Proud was to be the last, the very last, cast out and replaced forever by something called a republic. A mockery! A mistake! An experiment that failed! Today is the republic’s final day. Tomorrow, men will shout in the Forum, ‘All hail King Coriolanus!

  Steven Saylor

  Kings, Mistake, Boys

  Steven Saylor (2007). “Roma: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.168, Macmillan

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• History is as Old as My Grandfather

  Adolf Hitler

  Grandfather

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• There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

  A. A. Milne

  Time, Grandfather, Sailor

  A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.45, Egmont UK

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• In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Independent, Grandfather, Peers

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• One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

  Colin Firth

  Doctors, People, Grandfather

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• My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Writing, Grandmother

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.55, University of Texas Press

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• I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'

  Danielle Fotopoulos

  Sports, Games, Grandfather

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• My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

  Unknown

  Father, Nihilism, Nihilist

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• People make their life really hard. It was as simple as this: My parents went to church. My grandfather was a bishop. My mom sang in the choir, my dad played the keyboard, and my uncle played the drums. I was into playing the drums, so I played the drums a lot for my uncle, and it got to the point where I was pretty nice at playing the drums. And he let me play every Sunday so, to me, going to church was fun.

  Fetty Wap

  Mom, Uncles, Fun

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• The Alzheimer's Association is what I am passionate about. My grandfather had it. My mom has it. It's a horrible disease, and with our aging population, it's a growing problem. It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.

  Graham Shiels

  Mom, Alzheimer's, Grandfather

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• I just love Wisconsin. I'm a fourth-generation Wisconsinite,and my great grandparents were farmers. My grandfather delivered the mail. My mom was the first in her family to go to college. My dad started this business that becomes an international success. And I just believe very strongly in Wisconsin and who we are and the potential that this state has. And I'm really concerned about the direction that we're headed.

  Mary Burke

  Mom, Dad, Believe

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my grandfather gave me one, almost by mistake. He knew I was playing a little bit of guitar. He saw a banjo at a flea market and bought it. I took it home with me and just never put it down. I was fifteen.

  Bela Fleck

  Mistake, Home, Guitar

  Source: therumpus.net

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