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• Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting. Sometimes you hear a distant refrain. What does it mean, you ask, who is singing? A childlike sun grows warm. A grandson and a great-grandson are born. You are led by the hand once again. The names of the rivers remain with you. How endless those rivers seem! Your fields lie fallow, The city towers are not as they were. You stand at the threshold mute.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Running, Spring, Lying

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Forget”

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• We’re every age at once and tucked inside ourselves like Russian nesting dolls. My mother is an 8 year old girl. My grandson is a 74 year old retiree whose kidneys just failed. And that’s the glue between me and you. That’s the screws and nails. We live in a house made of each other and if that sounds strange that’s because it is.

  George Watsky

  Girl, Mother, Years

  Song: Tiny Glowing Screens, Part 2, Album: Cardboard Castles, 2013

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• My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever and tell people, 'My grandson is going to be the next Calvin Klein.'

  Marc Jacobs

  Grandmother, People, Next

  "Marc Jacobs Interview: Fashion Designer Muses On His Teenage Years And Early Days In The Industry". Interview with Julia Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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• I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No... but I served in a company of heroes.'

  Richard Winters

  Memories, War, Hero

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• I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.

  Aaron McGruder

  Mean, Wonder

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• I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play golf a little bit.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Couple, Fun, Golf

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Son, Two, Tiny

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Golf, Years

  "AriZona 20 Years: Arnold Palmer". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• In fact, somebody keeps putting on my Wikipedia page that I'm either Don Pardo's son or grandson. I had an audition recently where the woman said, "I understand that you're Don Pardo's grandson," and I said, "No, I am not." And you should have seen the look of disappointment on her face. It may have cost me the job. It was that devastating to her that I wasn't related to Don Pardo.

  Jimmy Pardo

  Jobs, Disappointment, Son

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service. It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.

  John McCain

  Son, America, Navy

  John McCain's Announcement Speech in New Hampshire, www.mccain.senate.gov. September 27, 1999.

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• We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, May

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.227, GENERAL PRESS

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• Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill, he vowed to her that someday he would try to tell the world her life story. 'But why?' she asked humbly. 'I'm no one, just a girl from the coast' 'But you are everyone, Grandma,' the young Pramoedya told her. 'You are all the people who have ever had to fight to make this life their own.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Girl, Mother, Grandma

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Willem Samuels (2002). “The girl from the coast: a novel”, Hyperion Books

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• I love being called NTRs grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didnt try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

  N. T. Rama Rao Jr.

  Love Is, Shadow, Trying

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• . . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Rivers, Water

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• I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

  Penny Marshall

  Technology, People, Guy

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

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• Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

  Josh Billings

  Parent, Age, Ancestry

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• My grandsons really love my apple cake, which is from my grandmother's recipe.

  Susan Lucci

  Grandmother, Cake, Apples

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• What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending their neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Believe, Book, People

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jan 11, 2017

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• My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.

  Julian Castro

  Grandmother, Two, People

  Julian Castro's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

  Margaret Sanger

  New York, Destiny, Cities

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• Donald Trump is the grandson of German immigrants. Don't worry. The last time a German guy with crazy hair took over a country, everything turned out fine.

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Crazy, Hair

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• This is what makes me happy: ...Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and also fix my computer ... An evening in bed with a good book. ... A good night's sleep ... As you can see, it doesn't take much to make me happy.

  Art Buchwald

  Happiness, Good Night, Book

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• If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born.

  Russell Banks

  Black, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A little Jewish Grandma is at the Florida coast with her little Jewish Grandson. The grandson is playing on the beach when a big wave comes and washes the kid out to sea. The lifeguards swim out, bring him back to shore, the paramedics work on him for a long time, pumping the water out, reviving him. They turn to the Jewish Grandma, and say, we saved your grandson. The little Jewish Grandma says, He had a hat!

  Henny Youngman

  Beach, Grandma, Kids

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• The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.

  Tony Benn

  War, Granddaughter, World

  Source: mattkennard.tumblr.com

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