Grandfather Quotes - Page 24

• Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

  Lorine Niedecker

  Poetry, Desks, Trade

  Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy (2002). “Collected Works”, p.194, Univ of California Press

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• Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.

  Patrick Grant

  Hate, Integrity, Years

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• My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

  Pete Seeger

  Mother, Father, Piano

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Laughing, Faces, Chevy

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• My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

  Brian Dennehy

  Stars, Real, Hero

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• That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: Use your eyes! Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.

  Keith Coogan

  Mother, Eye, Voice

  "EXCLUSIVE: Keith Coogan Talks The Fox and the Hound 30th Anniversary Blu-ray". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 15, 2011.

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• For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mothers maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.

  Keith Coogan

  Mother, Years, Names

  "EXCLUSIVE: Keith Coogan Talks The Fox and the Hound 30th Anniversary Blu-ray". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 15, 2011.

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• My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

  Eric Liu

  War, Air, Chinese

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• I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

  Pete Seeger

  Teacher, Father, Doctors

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• In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how my grandfather used to remember me. Around 1981, I became a pro-capitalist person and it stuck.

  Lubos Motl

  Kids, Unions, Red

  "Helmut Schmidt on global warming". Lubos Motl's blog, motls.blogspot.nl. June 5, 2007.

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• I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Country, Brother, Father

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

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• My grandfather always told me, You know youre American first, but youre a Greek-American, which makes you a better American. It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.

  Melina Kanakaredes

  Sweet, Greek, Special

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• You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.

  Ralph Ellison

  Trying, Sides, Ends

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.392, Vintage

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• My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

  Cassandra Clare

  Grew Up, Producers, Movie Sets

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• When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong, Book, Eye

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• I understand the rural south because I spent a lot of time in it when I was a kid and my grandfather’s brothers were farmers and I spent time on the farm when I was a kid with them walking through the fields and working and hanging out.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Brother, Kids, Fields

  "Samuel L. Jackson Interviewed – ‘Black Snake Moan’". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. March 1, 2007.

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• My grandfather is from Ireland. His name is Florence McCarthy. He moved to New York in 1920. They used to beat him up because his name was Florence. He had to switch his name to Frank. And then this Christmas, he made an announcement - he goes, 'I'm switching me name back to Florence.' And we beat him up, 'cause it's a dumb name and he's old and weak and it was easy.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  New York, Names, Dumb

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• I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children`s grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all my heart. ... Johnny Cash will, like Will Rogers, stand forever as a symbol of intelligence, creativity, compassion and common sense.

  Rodney Crowell

  Children, Heart, Creativity

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• My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

  Luke Goss

  Believe, Unseen, Fortune

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2008.

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• Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.

  Charles Darwin

  Passion, Evil, Descent

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.33, OUP Oxford

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• I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

  Anita Diament

  Son, Praying, Infant

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• I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture." Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.

  Laura Lippman

  Mother, Agriculture, Pieces

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz and soul music like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and The Rat Pack and swing music.

  Ella Henderson

  Holiday, Swings, Play

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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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• 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, Brain

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