Grandpa Quotes - Page 7

• I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

  Odette Annable

  Spy, Trying, Locks

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• I was talking to my grandpa last Thanksgiving. He pulled me aside and was like, "This Thanksgiving is the 150th for the Vaughn family in Chicago." I was like, "Cool, whatever," but I think when you have a culture like that, you should have a real appreciation for it. My family's been there forever and I don't want to leave.

  Patrick Stump

  Appreciation, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

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• I was always a person on my mother's hip in the kitchen. My mom really wanted her kids at her side as much as possible, and she worked in restaurants for over fifty years. And my grandfather had ten children, and he grew and prepared most of the food. My grandmother, on my mother's side, was the family seamstress and the baker. So my mom, the eldest child, was always in the kitchen with my grandpa and I was always in the production and restaurant kitchens and our own kitchen with my mom. And it's just something that has always spoken to me.

  Rachael Ray

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Interview with Celebrity Chef Rachael Ray". TheCelebrityCafe Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. March 27, 2012.

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• My grandpa taught me how to live off the land.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Land, Taught

  Song: America Will Survive

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• What an honor that Stephen Prouty got nominated for best makeup and hairstyling for Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa. Am I as stunned as everyone else we didn’t get the nod for best picture? Well of course, duh, but I won’t let that take away from my happiness for Steve, Tony Gardner, and our whole makeup team. Wahoo!

  Johnny Knoxville

  Team, Makeup, Honor

  "Oscar Nominee Reactions: Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep And Julia Roberts Respond To Nods". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2014.

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• Just across the ocean in, say Kenya or Tanzania, a two-gender system is vital for the survival of most of the folks who live there. Men do men's work, women do women's work, and so it all gets done and the jackals can't get into the hut and eat grandpa. So, the future of the transgender movement is like the future of all human rights movements: whatever the state of things in your area now, with some work it all gets a little bit better all the time, even if it is sometimes three steps ahead and two steps back.

  Kate Bornstein

  Ocean, Men, Two

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

  Pam Brown

  Wise, Mother, Grandma

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• Beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Art, Nursing

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• I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to LA when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.

  Jacob Latimore

  Grandmother, Views, Years

  "Exclusive: Jacob Latimore talks Black Nativity and Maze Runner". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. November 26, 2013.

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• My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Believe, Grandmother

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• On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

  Gene Perret

  Grandchildren, Grandparent, People

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

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• I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Self

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

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• As far as I know, no one in the Kaufman or Hart clan was the basis for anyone in the play. I think we all wish we had a Grandpa, Penny, and Mr. De Pinna in our families.

  Chris Hart

  Thinking, Play, Wish

  Source: blog.roundabouttheatre.org

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• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Beautiful, Art

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• He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Powerful, Father

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• Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Sweet, Time, Grandma

  "China: Past and Present". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1972.

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• Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

  Lewis Mumford

  Family, Father, Grandmother

  The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)

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• I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

  Robert Breault

  Taken, Grandmother, Grandkids

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• I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Children, Father

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• When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar.

  Phillip Adams

  Years, Tree, My Best Friend

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• You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

  Sam Levenson

  Grandmother, Grandparent, Grandfather

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.1, Open Road Media

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• Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.

  Umair Haque

  Grandchildren, Leader, Inspire

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• My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying I love you. His love had to do with the way he treated you. When he said, We're going here, we're going there, he was telling me about life. That was his love for me. My love for him was listening to what he said, keeping out of trouble, doing right, being fair.

  Bill Cosby

  Believe, Love You, Kissing

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• I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

  Hal Boyle

  Life, Art, Ambition

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