Great Grandfather Quotes

• My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.

  Rand Paul

  Dream, Country, Grandfather

  Rand Paul's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Forida, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

  Roy Barnes

  Grandfather, Never Forget, Forget

  "Governor Barnes Addresses Georgia Senate on Flag Issue", January 30, 2001.

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• My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

  David Hyde Pierce

  Dad, Grandfather, Actors

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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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• To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

  Marcus Aurelius

  School, Home, Advice

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• My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Daughter, Mother, Art

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• The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

  Bernard Williams

  Father, Men, Average

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

  Nik Wallenda

  Grandfather, Pay, Tribute

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• As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

  Armie Hammer

  Oil, California, Grandfather

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

  Alex Haley

  Life, Children, Grandmother

  Reader's Digest, 1987.

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

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

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• My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

  Louis Adamic

  Life, Fathers Day, Grandpa

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• It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor.

  Will Graham

  Emotional, Grandfather, Fruit

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• My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

  Alan Garner

  Men, Self, Grandfather

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007.

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• The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Writing, Emotional, Grandparent

  "Best Selling Novelist Pens Tale of Grandparents Star-Crossed Romance". Interview with Julie A. Carlson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.

  Patricia Hampl

  Crush, Father, Historical

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

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• Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism.

  Paul Krugman

  Self, Grandfather, Inward

  "The Great Illusion" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. August 14, 2008.

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• The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.

  Chuck Berry

  Country, Song, Boys

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• It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Wine, Son, Blood

  "33 Things You Should Know About Tool". Blender, August 2006.

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• I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. He was a minister for 15 years…I come from a big family not in terms of money, but reputation and grew up in a protective mountain environment…My father slapped me for the first time at 15 and I told him, ‘If you slap me I will slap you back’. I felt raising your hand on anybody is inappropriate and always had a high regard for my self. My dad asked me to leave the house and I did so without a single penny in my pocket.

  Kangana Ranaut

  Dad, Father, Self

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• The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.

  Ahmadu Bello

  Power, Political, Grandfather

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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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• My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Father, Hammers, Tools

  Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.

  Norm MacDonald

  Funny, Dad, Guy

  "Comedy gold: Norm Macdonald's Me Doing Standup" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2013.

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