- Farm
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.
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My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
- Big Influence
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My grandfather has a big influence on me; without him, I wouldn't be where I am now.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes.
- Anon
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- NASA
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- Nov 07, 2020
I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.
- Acting
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.
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My grandfather was a civil servant. He was honest, so it would be unfair to say we enjoyed the perils of richness.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Politician
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was a politician and lived in Washington, D.C., so as a kid, I used to go to D.C. every other weekend.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather created a big family in Italy. He protected the family; he helped them in hospitals and stuff like that.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020