My Grandfather Quotes - Page 3

• I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

  Salman Rushdie

  Mother, Religious, Father

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• I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for almost three years, I managed not to miss any of them. And then I spent that one day with that one girl. One day ... It was like she gave me her whole self, and somehow as a result, I gave her more of myself than I even realized there was to give. But then she was gone. And only after I'd been filled up by her, by that day, did I understand how empty I really was.

  Gayle Forman

  Girl, Mother, Father

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• Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush

  Abbi Glines

  Mother, Baby, Dad

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• My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

  Andy Garcia

  Father, Cuba, Saws

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• I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

  Renee Fleming

  Simple, Emotional, Grandfather

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• Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

  John Templeton

  Children, Optimistic, Doctors

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• I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a
  full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy
  ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

  Jim Harrison

  Loneliness, Passion, Being Alone

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• My grandfather stood beside me and looked across the street, too. "No, Bryce," he said softly. "She's the same as she's always been; you're the one who's changed." He clapped his hand on my shoulder and whispered, "And son, from here on out, you'll never be the same again.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Son, Hands, Grandfather

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Mom, Travel

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• Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  New York, Sibling, Kids

  "Get To Know Giada". The TIME Interview, content.time.com. June 2, 2006.

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• When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

  J. J. Abrams

  Mean, Kids, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.

  Jesse L. Greenstein

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

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• My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather.

  Leonard Marx

  Grandchildren, Grandfather, Great Grandfather

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• Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.

  Holly Black

  Love, Girl, Fall

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

  David Rockefeller

  Dad, Father, Tears

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• I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.

  Dennis Quaid

  Real, Texas, Grandfather

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• When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

  Terry Pratchett

  Song, Father, Singing

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• The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

  Kevin Powers

  Uncles, Father, Military

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• My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Kids, Grandfather, Would Be

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

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• I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

  Brad Pitt

  Grandmother, Names, Grandparent

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• Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Grandfather

  "E=MO²". Album by Emo Philips, 1985.

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• My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

  Rand Paul

  Children, Doctors, Grandfather

  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

  Yoko Ono

  Japan, Grandfather, Important

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• I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

  John Forbes Nash

  Memories, Grandmother, Play

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• Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

  Jon Meacham

  Military, War, Book

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