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- Nov 07, 2020
Grandfather Quotes
On the men who shaped a family's history.
These grandfather quotes trace how a household's values and even its trade can pass down a generation, from teaching lineages to a seafarer who kept running his home like a ship long after retiring. Readers exploring Family quotes will find the same thread of generational habit running through both.
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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up knowing my grandfather had served our country for decades in the Navy, buried in his whites in Arlington; I have family members who are veterans.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once upon a time, I liked to call myself 'The Grandfather of NXT' because I was one of the first to come up as I was, from NXT.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent summers with my mother's parents in Arkansas, where religion felt very present. My grandmother was Baptist, and my grandfather was Methodist. Double Southern whammy.
- Looking
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I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into a twirl - now that is worth looking up to.
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I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.
- Company
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My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.
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My grandfather had strong opinions. He was an argumentative character and quite staunchly socialist.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a grandfather now, and when I watch children's shows with my two-year-old grandson, Arlo, I'm delighted because it's completely non-traditional casting. It feels like a utopia. How the world should be.
- Berlin
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020