My Grandfather Quotes - Page 14

• My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

  Gene Hackman

  Uncles, Writing, Grandfather

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• My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

  Henry Ford

  Family, Father, Cancer

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• A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story.

  Martin Buber

  Teacher, Rose, Grandfather

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• My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

  Dan Quayle

  People, Stupidity, Grandfather

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• My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Baby, Men, Grandfather

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• I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

  Kary Mullis

  Writing, Kids, Black

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• After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

  Tom Hooper

  Fire, Land, Enemy

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• I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.

  Mario Cuomo

  Grandfather, Window, Crash

  The New York Times, September 14, 1986.

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• I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Dream, Men, Boys

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.43, Penguin

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• The family believes that my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a horrible injustice. We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well.

  Mark Felt

  Country, Believe, Hero

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• I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.

  Mike Pence

  Mom, Country, Dad

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

  John F. Kennedy

  Grandfather, Albatross, Company

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• My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.

  Abel Ferrara

  New York, Years, Southern Italy

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.

  Desi Arnaz

  Girl, Strong, Latin

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• I understand the rural south because I spent a lot of time in it when I was a kid and my grandfather’s brothers were farmers and I spent time on the farm when I was a kid with them walking through the fields and working and hanging out.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Brother, Kids, Grandfather

  "Samuel L. Jackson Interviewed – ‘Black Snake Moan’". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. March 1, 2007.

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• My grandfather is from Ireland. His name is Florence McCarthy. He moved to New York in 1920. They used to beat him up because his name was Florence. He had to switch his name to Frank. And then this Christmas, he made an announcement - he goes, 'I'm switching me name back to Florence.' And we beat him up, 'cause it's a dumb name and he's old and weak and it was easy.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  New York, Names, Dumb

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• I love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning storms, and they would knock the electricity out. We had this oil lantern that had been in my grandfather's homestead at the turn of the century, before there even was electricity. He'd bring it down off the top shelf, and we'd always play cards.

  Feist

  Kids, Play, Oil

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

  Ed Droste

  Mother, Teacher, Grandfather

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there was an anthology without any names attached to it and I read a poem called Spellbound and I somehow attached it to my grandfather's death and I thought my grandfather had written it.

  Edward Hirsch

  Book, Names, House

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."

  Edward Hirsch

  Teacher, School, Grandfather

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Then I found another one, grandpa's poem. It turned out it had been written by Emily Brontë and it wasn't my grandfather's poem at all, although my response to it, I think, was pretty much the same, I just had the author wrong.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Grandpa, Grandfather

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Class, People

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

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• I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Magazines, Time Magazine

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

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• My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

  Maya Lin

  Father, Artist, Firsts

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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