Grandfather Quotes - Page 5

• My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

  David Rockefeller

  Dad, Father, Tears

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• Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future.

  Prince Charles

  Baby, Unique, People

  "Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to baby boy, third in line to the throne" by Caroline Davies and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2013.

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• My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

  Curtis Jackson

  Grandparent, Church, Agendas

  "Money talks". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2003.

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• I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

  Aravind Adiga

  Cities, Four, Tongue

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• He was very supportive of me, ... He saw every single play I did in New York. Ill never forget looking out into the audience and watching my brother, who was 40 years younger than my grandfather, sleeping in his chair during some of my early plays. My grandfather Alex never fell asleep.

  Liev Schreiber

  Brother, New York, Sleep

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• Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.

  Fabien Cousteau

  Ocean, Names, Pay

  FaceBook post by Fabien Cousteau from Jun 29, 2014

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• I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. He was a minister for 15 years…I come from a big family not in terms of money, but reputation and grew up in a protective mountain environment…My father slapped me for the first time at 15 and I told him, ‘If you slap me I will slap you back’. I felt raising your hand on anybody is inappropriate and always had a high regard for my self. My dad asked me to leave the house and I did so without a single penny in my pocket.

  Kangana Ranaut

  Dad, Father, Self

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• Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends. . . . When Arjuna thus saw his kinsmen face to face in both lines of battle, he was overcome by grief and despair and thus he spoke with a sinking heart.

  Juan Mascaro

  Brother, Uncles, Father

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• My grandfather always told me that it is no good lying on a hospital bed saying, 'I had the right of way', ... That's one of the reasons I was so pleased that the boys could do the IAM test as well.

  Nigel Mansell

  Lying, Boys, Tests

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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 mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• I will eat grandfather for dinner.

  Helen Keller

  Dinner

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.457, The Floating Press

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• Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

  James Patterson

  Mom, Mother, Brother

  "How to get your kid to be a fanatic reader" By James Patterson, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I spent six years as a child growing not far from Las Vegas.I use to sit on the porch of our home and listen to my grandfather tell stories as he smoked one of three daily cigars.One of the things my grandfather instilled in me, was that I was really blessed because I was a citizen of the greatest country in the history of our mankind.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Blessed

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror... I want to be able to look at my father in 10 years' time and say, 'I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of me.'

  James Packer

  Father, Mirrors, Years

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• My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

  Parker Posey

  Cousin, Dad, Lefties

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2008.

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• My grandfather and I were very close.

  Tea Obreht

  My Grandfather

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• I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.

  James Hansen

  Grandchildren, Grandpa, Climate

  "'We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to lead'" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

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• The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.

  Chuck Berry

  Country, Song, Boys

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• Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.

  M. R. DeHaan

  Truth, Father, Confusion

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• I want to appreciate you now, and avoid the rush.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Appreciate, Want, Appreciate You

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• Of this blest man, let his just praise be given,
  Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Heaven, Praise

  Written in Dr Richard Sibbes's Returning Backslider, now preserved in Salisbury Cathedral Library

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• I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

  Jim Renacci

  Thinking, Coal Miners, Cards

  "Exclusive Interview with Jim Renacci, GOP Candidate in OH-16". Interview with Mytheos Holt, www.nationalreview.com. September 1, 2010.

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• This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.

  John Ratzenberger

  Father, Hippie, Party

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• My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.

  Wyclef Jean

  Uncles, Daddy, Study

  "Q&A: Wyclef Jean on Bill Clinton and Haiti's New Revolution". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. July 8, 2010.

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