My Grandfather Quotes - Page 5

• My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

  Yancy Butler

  Islands, Long, Grandfather

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• I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.

  Angela Lansbury

  Mother, Kids, Thinking

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• My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Cousin, Uncles, Dad

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• My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Home, Grandfather, Felt

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• In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Government, Cities

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• My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

  Forest Whitaker

  Summer, Pigs, Grandparent

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. December 2006.

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• My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a family that was very involved with the legal battles against apartheid—the great treason trials in the 1950s and early '60s, and later with the legal resources center that my mother founded. My father was involved with a number of very prominent cases that had political aspects to them, whether it was the inquest into the Sharpeville Massacre, the death of Steve Biko, or one of the trials of Nelson Mandela.

  William Kentridge

  Mother, Father, Talking

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• As we faithfully pay our tithes, the Lord will indeed open the windows of heaven and pour us out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. I want each of you to know, and especially my children and grandchildren, that I know, as my grandfather did, that if you always pay an honest tithing, the Lord will bless you. It will be the best investment you will ever make.

  Sheldon F. Child

  Children, Blessing, Heaven

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• Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Brother, Father, Agriculture

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• My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

  Tyson Chandler

  Tree, Grandfather, Peaches

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• I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

  Ricky Jay

  Guy, Grandfather, Friendly

  "So Many Weird Worlds: A Conversation with Ricky Jay" by Cole Louison, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2011.

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• My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

  Alexis Denisof

  Mother, New York, Grandfather

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.

  Jeff Bezos

  Teamwork, Clever, Grandfather

  "Jeff Bezos: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2002.

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• Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

  Jane Smiley

  Mom, Uncles, Aunt

  "A Few Remedies for the Right to Bear Arms" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.

  Tim Scott

  Country, Blessing, Years

  "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. December 19, 2012.

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• In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'

  Herman Cain

  Grandfather, Doe, Care

  "'Arrested Development' Creator Explains How Herman Cain Inspired Season 4—and Cain Responds" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. June 5, 2013.

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• My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.

  Jen Kirkman

  Mom, Kids, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

  Jessie Ware

  Grandfather, Cry, Made

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• I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.

  Hannah Simone

  Thinking, House, Greek

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hannah Simone". www.esquire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

  Clare Bowen

  Beautiful, Grandmother, Grandparent

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• Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.

  Peter Agre

  Mother, Support, Grandfather

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• We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

  Greta Gerwig

  California, Grandfather, Poor

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2010.

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• My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hands, Play, Grandfather

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

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• Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Alzheimer's, Aggravation, Grandfather

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• And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Giving, Joy, Grandfather

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