- Enough
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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
- Wait
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't wait to be a grandfather.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to prove to American voters, particularly independent voters who gave us this opportunity to lead, that this is not your grandfather's tax-and-spend Democratic Party.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.
- Copies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only politician in my family was my grandfather's grandfather, who was the mayor of Winnipeg from Jan. 1, 1917, until Jan. 5, 1917, because he lost the recount. So he was mayor of Winnipeg for four days.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.
- Fleeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Kennedys had been barred from entering America after fleeing Ireland during the famine, my grandfather never would have been president.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020