My Grandfather Quotes - Page 15

• My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Grandfather, Preacher, Pentecostal

  "Country Music Sensation Billy Ray Cyrus". Interview with Kelli Gillespie, www.risenmagazine.com. 2013.

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• When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

  Gavin DeGraw

  War, Hero, Hands

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• It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.

  Novak Djokovic

  Support You, Grandparent, Interesting

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• My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

  Novak Djokovic

  Grandfather

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• My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Mother, Doors, Parent

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• I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Mother, Aunt, Kitchen

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• My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Father, Black, Grandfather

  "The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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• My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

  Temple Grandin

  Airplane, Grandfather, Pilots

  Temple Grandin (2011). “The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's”, p.249, BookBaby

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• My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

  Curtis Jackson

  Grandparent, Grandfather, Church

  "Money talks". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2003.

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• My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

  Wyclef Jean

  Eye, Grandfather, Spirituality

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• My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

  Kevin Johnson

  Motivational, Basketball, Responsibility

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• All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Aunt, Grandfather

  "Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2008.

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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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• During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

  Amin Maalouf

  Uncles, Moving, Egypt

  "A son of the road" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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• Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

  John Malkovich

  Brother, Grandfather, Able

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

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• I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.

  Adam Sandler

  Father, Four, Driving

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• It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

  Gene Simmons

  Mother, Book, Yesterday

  "Parker Spitzer" with Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2010.

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• My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

  Clarence Thomas

  Grandmother, People, Grandfather

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• I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

  Dionne Warwick

  Grandfather, Earth, Able

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• My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

  Warren Beatty

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.

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• My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.

  Aga Khan IV

  Art, Book, Past

  "My Beloved Grandfather: A few words by Mowlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan IV". www.amaana.org. November 1977.

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• My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

  Cassandra Clare

  Grandfather, Grew Up, Producers

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• The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.

  Cornel West

  Brother, Father, Men

  "A conversation with Cornel West". Interview with Itabari Njeri, articles.latimes.com. October 22, 1995.

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• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  Frances Mayes

  Grandfather, Cotton, Georgia

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• Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs... have usurped a large part of the soil.

  William Cobbett

  Father, Son, Men

  Political Register, December 21, 1816.

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