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• Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, "I love you, sweetheart." She responded rather blandly: "I know." I asked, "How do you know that I love you?" Because! You're my grandfather!

  Russell M. Nelson

  Love, Years, Granddaughter

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• My grandfather was a small-town doctor and he used to say that I was missing a gene that told me that some giant risk I am about to take with my life is both stupid and dangerous. I'm grateful for this. Everything worthwhile that we create in life requires a leap of faith.

  Paul Budnitz

  Stupid, Grateful, Doctors

  "Say 'Ello' to the Guy Who Invented an Alternative to Facebook" by Alyssa Newcomb, abcnews.go.com. September 30, 2014.

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• To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

  Will Graham

  Blessing, Dying, Finishing

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• It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor.

  Will Graham

  Emotional, Fruit, Labor

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• That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so?

  Kaye Gibbons

  Jobs, Fear, Believe

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• In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Government, Cities

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• I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Son, Dna

  "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview with Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Home, My Grandfather, Felt

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• I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

  Father, Shoes, Able

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• I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

  Sigmar Polke

  Photography, Art, Children

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• I think there is a heritage which I’m proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Father, Fighting

  "Q&A with George Papandreou". Interview with Nicole Itano, papandreou.gr. April 12, 2010.

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• My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

  Larry Page

  Thinking, Iron, Weapons

  "How Google's Larry Page became a responsible entrepreneur" by Carol Sanford, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2014.

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• I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.

  Rachael Ray

  Sandwiches, Sardines, Cafeteria

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• I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Travel, Rivers, Personality

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• My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

  Gene Hackman

  Uncles, Writing, Lines

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• My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

  Henry Ford

  Family, Father, Cancer

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• My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.

  Jen Kirkman

  Mom, Kids, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.

  Anson Mount

  Wall, Military, Years

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.

  Tyson Chandler

  Baby, Hard Work, Animal

  "Tyson Chandler strips down". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. July 14, 2012.

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• My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

  Tyson Chandler

  Tree, Peaches, Dirt

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• I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

  Ricky Jay

  Guy, Friendly, Levels

  "So Many Weird Worlds: A Conversation with Ricky Jay" by Cole Louison, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2011.

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• My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

  Alexis Denisof

  Mother, New York, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Four, Seven

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• My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hands, Play, Too Late

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

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• We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

  Greta Gerwig

  California, Poor, Grew Up

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2010.

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