- Good
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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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- Decorative
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
- Library
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public library is where I studied. It's where my grandfather taught himself English.
- Mother
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I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.
- Daughter
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My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station.
- Come
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I come from a wrestling background - my father and grandfather were into wrestling.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
- Generosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.
- Mother
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