My Grandfather Quotes - Page 11

• I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

  Chris Colfer

  Cute, Nice, Car

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• We're different men [with Donald Trump], different life experiences. But I've always been struck by our common heritage. His grandfather immigrated to this country just like my grandfather. His dad was a self-made businessman, who built up a business with his two hands. And my dad followed his dreams to Columbus, Indiana, helped build a small business in that town.

  Mike Pence

  Dream, Country, Dad

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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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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• We were in Greenville, South Carolina, where he lived, and he was coming the next day to the show, but he passed away the night before. I was very close to my grandfather. He was the first guy to teach me how to ride a motorcycle, so (his death) meant a lot to me. It just gave me a perspective on life and how important it is to live it and enjoy it while we're here. Sometimes we're looking for the grass to be greener, and what's awesome is right in front of you.

  Bret Michaels

  Night, Next Day, Perspective

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• My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

  James Nicoll

  War, Grandfather, Example

  Usenet article, 2003.

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• The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

  Marina Abramovic

  Brother, Fall, Sacrifice

  "Interview: Marina Abramović" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.

  Kellan Lutz

  Grandfather, Coins, World

  Source: collider.com

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• I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.

  Dichen Lachman

  Cousin, Uncles, Aunt

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• I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

  Aneurin Barnard

  Father, Age, Watches

  "The Truth About Aneurin Barnard". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2012.

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• My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

  Woody Allen

  Food, Funeral, Cooking

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• Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.

  Patrick Grant

  Hate, Integrity, Years

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• A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Father, Writing

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• No matter what ailed you, a small glass of schnapps would take care of it at once. This particular remedy was so good my grandfather would frequently take the cure even before there was anything wrong with him.

  Molly Picon

  Drinking, Glasses, Grandfather

  Molly Picon (1962). “So Laugh A Little”

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• My family have always supported my rap - and they know I love them when I rap about them - but I'm just Michael Jackson to them. They care more about me. I express my love for them in a much more personal way on this record. It's about our conversations; my fear, and their advice. I know my sisters are gonna hear "Willie Burke Sherwood", which is named for my grandfather, and cry. I used to do music for me, because my ego needed it, but now I'm doing music for my family and friends who helped me become a rapper.

  Killer Mike

  Rap, Advice, Ego

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Country, Brother, Father

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

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• My grandfather always told me, You know youre American first, but youre a Greek-American, which makes you a better American. It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.

  Melina Kanakaredes

  Sweet, Greek, Grandfather

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• You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.

  Ralph Ellison

  Grandfather, Trying, Sides

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.392, Vintage

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• Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself.

  Robert P. George

  America, Grandfather, Dawn

  Robert P. George (2016). “Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism”, p.78, Open Road Media

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• When I sat there in 1971 and watched my grandfather open Walt Disney World, I was a little 11-year-old girl who worshiped the ground he walked on. You probably couldn't have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.

  Abigail Disney

  Girl, Years, Grandfather

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Horse, Kings

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• When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'

  Thomas Kean, Jr.

  Running, Father, Son

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• Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown
  hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric
  messages, galvanizing my genes.

  Etheridge Knight

  Fall, Grandfather, Red

  Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”

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• My grandfather is hard of hearing. He needs to read lips. I don't
  mind him reading lips, but he uses one of those yellow highlighters.

  Brian Kiley

  Reading, Yellow, Mind

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• I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement!

  Amber Rose

  Blessed, Grandfather, Skins

  "Amber Rose's Singular Look" by Johanna Cox, www.elle.com. November 25, 2009.

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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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