Grandson Quotes - Page 3

• I'm divorced and have a son and a grandson and it is a problem being away most of the time. Living as I do, if I had a wife and children I think it would be really hard to do.

  Doug Rice

  Children, Son, Thinking

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in the years, in the run-up to the First World War. And I mean, there was a connection there. He was, indeed, Queen Victoria's grandson. You know, they were all related, all these royal families.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Running, Queens, War

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think that [Donald] Trump is brilliant to raise this issue. When my son, Gabriel, and his wife, Deb, was pregnant, I said, You got to come home. I want my grandson to be president of the United States. He has to be born in the United States.Now, a child of a citizen of the United States born abroad or born wheresoever is a citizen if that's - he or she so chooses. So there's no doubt but that Ted Cruz is a citizen of the United States.

  Donald Trump

  Children, Home, Son

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If you want information about sports, I can tell you things from the 1940's, and the couple years that my grandson was kind of a jock, but nothing in between.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sports, Couple, Years

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• How far would you go to protect your family? I'm a father, I'm a son, I'm a grandson, and I'm a husband. If someone were to hurt the women in my life and the law didn't take care of it, what would I do? Pretty awful things.

  Jason Momoa

  Hurt, Husband, Father

  Source: collider.com

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• This grandson of an Irish immigrant, after whom I was named, Richard Michael Cawley is my grandfather. I was right that - and I always tell kids that, you know, if my small life represents anything is that if you work hard, you study hard, and you never give up on your dreams and listen to people that care about, you can live those dreams. And for me to be up on the platform standing with my right hand in the air in the presence of my family and our new president [Donald Trump], it just tells me this is a great country. My grandfather was right.

  Mike Pence

  Dream, Country, Giving Up

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Care, Littles

  Samuel Johnson, Sir John Hawkins (1787). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...”, p.490

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• My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Son, Cities, Special

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• I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Football, Children, Boys

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.

  Gore Vidal

  Stars, Son, Hollywood

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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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, Grandpa

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

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• Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.

  Larry L. King

  Country, Children, Sleep

  Larry L. King (1985). “Warning, Writer at Work: The Best Collectibles of Larry L. King”, p.164, TCU Press

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• The whole life of Demosthenes... leaves the impression of a melancholy state of things, and of the brazen insolence of wickedness. A particularly striking idea of how things really were in Greece can be obtained from one feature of life - the sons who turned out badly.... the sons of gifted but arrogant fathers turned out merely arrogant, the grandsons hopeless; it is respect alone that sustains families and gives them traditions.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Father, Son, Ideas

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• I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

  Whitley Strieber

  Christmas, Writing, Years

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• Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends. . . . When Arjuna thus saw his kinsmen face to face in both lines of battle, he was overcome by grief and despair and thus he spoke with a sinking heart.

  Juan Mascaro

  Brother, Uncles, Father

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• Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now almost everywhere you go, people have heard of it, they've seen it and they're like, "Oh, that's sport I saw on TV or my grandson plays that," and it's changed the face of the game and potential of the future.

  Gary Gait

  Sports, Years, Fishing

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• I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.

  Patrick Modiano

  Daughter, Mother, Two

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• My grandson is mad at me. He's mad at me because I squandered his college fund on Spanx. It's a lot, but there's a lot going on here.

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, College, Mad

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• In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Hero, Thinking

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• So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

  Pat Boone

  Daughter, Mother, Four

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• You're sad-looking," she said. "My grandson used to be such a happy boy. He used to write me stories. I remember the first story he ever wrote me, 'Once upon a time, there was a boy.' And that became 'Once upon a time there was a boy who wanted to fly.' And they kept getting better and better over time. I never found out if the boy got to fly." I gave her a small smile. If only she knew the boy's wings had been clipped.

  Chris Colfer

  Writing, Boys, Wings

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• Why are they doing that?” his mother said, frowning at her grandsons. The boys were sorting the casserole into piles on their plates. “Doing what?” Eve asked. “Why aren’t they eating their food?” “They don’t like it when things touch,” Eve said. “What things?” his mother asked. “Their food. They don’t like it when different foods touch or mix together.” “How do you serve dinner, in ice cube trays?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Mother, Boys, Ice

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• I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly -- Grandma Ruth

  Brandon Mull

  Grandma, Reading, Ruth

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• My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

  Margot Kidder

  Christmas, Tvs, Score

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Children, Kentucky, Ohio

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