Grandfather Quotes - Page 14

• My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars.

  Woody Allen

  Men, Car, Funeral

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• Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.

  Salman Rushdie

  Father, Mean, Civilization

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my grandmother. Or my grandfather. As every parent knows, our children are not as fascinated by our fascinating lives as we are.

  William Zinsser

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Coffins, Remember, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes you don't know if your memory is because you really experienced it or because you look at your old pictures. I have a nice picture of myself held up by my grandfather and my father standing next to me. We all have the same name - we're all called Anton Corbijn. That's something I cherish.

  Anton Corbijn

  Memories, Father, Nice

  "Anton Corbijn’s Spy Games". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2014.

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• My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Jobs, Father, Diplomats

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• Even today a lot of people know me because of my grandfather.

  Chris Paul

  People, Today, Know Me

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• The Seahawks have only been around since 1976, so our fan base is relatively young. You talk about the Patriots, or the Celtics or, obviously, Red Sox and Bruins. Your grandfather's father was a fan of that team. People have lived there their whole lives.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Father, Team, People

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• For me this was never a money issue, it was about being rich in your heart. To come home, and to be in the place where your dream first started, 15 minutes away from where my grandfather built my first basketball court, is a dream come true.

  Baron Davis

  Basketball, Dream, Home

  "Sacramento center Miller suspended". www.sfgate.com. July 11, 2008.

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• To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is required to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail.
  
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  The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in the cities, but luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.

  Desmond Tutu

  Running, Teenage, Block

  "An international campaign : Build moral pressure to end the occupation" by Desmond Tutu, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2002.

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• My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.

  Dolly Parton

  Eyebrows, Jezebel, Sin

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• When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

  Marc Andreessen

  War, Entrepreneur, Today

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• I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

  John F. Kennedy

  England, Accepted, Certain

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• Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

  Brett Ratner

  Mom, Beach, Brother

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• A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mistake, Men, Realist

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• My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Father, Language

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• When I was a child I accidentally made a chemical bomb. I also ate my grandfather's heart pills. I got my stomach pumped for that one. I got over that so by the time I hit my teens I was kind of mild. Now I'm like an old lady who occasionally parties real hard.

  Brittany Howard

  Children, Real, Party

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• I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.

  Jason Jones

  Church, Influence, My Family

  "Jason Jones launches Movie to Movement to move Hollywood toward positive storytelling". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October 2011.

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• In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Years, Hawaii, Married

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

  John F. Kennedy

  Albatross, Company, Left

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• A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.

  Marvin Sapp

  Powerful, Regret, Thinking

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• Did your great-grandfather have any children?

  Fern Britton

  Children, Great Grandfather

  "Live television is 'a high-wire act with no safety net'" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2011.

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• I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.

  Nelly Furtado

  Driving, Photograph, Donkey

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• [My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Brother, Law, Caves

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Digging, Four, Subway

  Source: www.esquire.com

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