Grandfather Quotes - Page 5

• I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Brother, Husband, Men

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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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• You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Hate, Mean, People

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• People at present think that five sons are not too many and each son has five sons also, and before the death of the grandfather there are already 25 descendants. Therefore people are more and wealth Is less; they work hard and receive little.

  Han Fei

  Hard Work, Son, Thinking

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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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• Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it's supposed to work. This is God's plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Running, Children

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• Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

  Haruki Murakami

  School, Years, Brain

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Mother, Father, Church

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• My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country.

  Betty Ford

  Country, Husband, Father

  "Former President Ford dies at 93", www.cnn.com. December 27, 2006.

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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, Age

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

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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, Pockets

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

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• What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Long, Heaven

  "A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works".

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• Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Faces, Window, Pedals

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Pigs, Digging A Hole

  "Holes". Book by Louis Sachar, June 1, 2011.

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• When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.

  Alice Sebold

  Light, Dust, Yellow

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• I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Alex, Good Person, Bad Times

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• Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him

  Michael Chabon

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Son, Tree, Boss

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.' " She looked lost, but his da laughed. He'd known the old man, too. "He called me 'He Who Must Run into Trees,'" Charles explained, and in a spirit of honesty, a need for his mate to know who he was, he continued, "or sometimes 'Running Eagle.' " " 'Running Eagle'?" Anna puzzled it over, frowning at him. "What's wrong with that?" "Too stupid to fly," murmured his father with a little smile.

  Patricia Briggs

  Running, Honesty, Father

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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 do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

  Nik Wallenda

  Pay, Tribute, Great Grandfather

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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, Orthodox

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• My dog, Ginger, is jumpy-like me-sensitive to sound and sudden movement. She wasn't that way at first, but not long after we got her, my grandfather told me to stand still outside and hold her leash tight. Then he shot a gun off by our feet, several times. "This is how girls learn to obey," he said, "how to be seen and not heard."

  Mira Bartok

  Girl, Dog, Bullying

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• When the chips are down, grandmothers can be counted on to do whatever's necessary. When the chips are down for grandfathers, we just go into the kitchen and get more chips.

  Mike Milligan

  Grandmother, Kitchen, Chips

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