Grandpa Quotes - Page 3

• Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Brother, Sibling

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• Even though the play [ The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to make ends meet and to "have a little fun along the way" have a very contemporary feel. The similarity between the The Great Depression and The Great Recession - as well as the gulf between the super-rich and the ordinary Joe - still rings a bell. One of the things this production accentuates is how beautifully Grandpa and his family accept all kinds of people - rich or poor, black or white - and the best thing that can happen to you is to be part of a loving family.

  Chris Hart

  Fun, Struggle, Character

  Source: blog.roundabouttheatre.org

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• "You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

  Gene Perret

  Children, Compliment, Trouble

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• I think in many ways what my films are about is that search for my grandpa's dentures: for that humanizing narrative that bridges the gap between "us" and "them" to arrive at a "we."

  Brian Lindstrom

  Thinking, Bridges, Narrative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Grandmother, Hymns, Voice

  "Dwight Yoakam Says New Album Was Inspired By Coal Mining And Mountain Music". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, ksjd.org. December 6, 2016.

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• My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.

  Austin Butler

  Horse, Growing Up, Cowboy

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• How far would you go for someone you love ? Well, when my grandkids ask me how I pledged my love to their grandma, I'll say, I told her I would die for her, after I found out I didn't have an incurable disease. Then, I ran away while grandma was getting her ass kicked by a pregnant woman that grandpa slept with. You never know when you're making a memory.

  Christopher Titus

  Memories, Grandma, Someone You Love

  "Titus / The Test". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

  Dolly Parton

  Piano, People, Musical

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• My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once, when I was twelve, my mom and I were driving and we saw my grandpa staggering drunk down the street. I asked if we should stop and help him. My mom sadly shook her head and kept driving.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Mom, Drunk, Twelve

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Grandmother, Energy

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.

  Gene Perret

  Nice, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."

  Scott Glenn

  Computer, Grandkids, Illiterate

  Source: collider.com

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• All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Cousin, Uncles, Grandma

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.169, Dell

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• It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Silly, Names, People

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.

  Michael Caine

  School, Boys, Cartoon

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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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, Grandfather, Church

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

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• You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.

  Amaury Nolasco

  Sorry, Grandma, Mean

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

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• My grandpa was a preacher.

  Dolly Parton

  Preacher

  "Bbaaccss1 'Joyful Noise' Stars Dolly Parton And Queen Latifah Go Gospel". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

  Jimmy Carter

  Responsibility, Pride, Grandchildren

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

  Roald Dahl

  Sometimes, Imagine, Heard

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• What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Kindness, Children, Life Lesson

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• If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Fun, Grandma, Grandmother

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• I thought Mike Pence, upon reflection to me, came across a little bit like your favorite aunt who refuses, in spite of first-person evidence that grandpa has been drunk and disorderly in public, that, says, no, no, grandpa would never do that, even though grandpa is being taken off in handcuffs.

  Mark Shields

  Taken, Aunt, Reflection

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!

  Stephen Colbert

  Hearing, Aids, Turns

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