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“My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten." "Tell him to take out the goalie.”

Knows Has Beens Games Late Grandfather Beaten My Grandfather Goalies Very Depressed

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his aunt’s house and slip through into Fillory...it’s like he’s opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never ac tually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into something better.”

Book House Dark Opening Clock Melancholy Slips Grandfather Aunt Something Better Cabinets Hallways

Author:Lev Grossman

“The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.”

Source: Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home

“Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?”

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Author:Georgette Heyer

“His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.”

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Book:Hunting Ground

Source: Hunting Ground

“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“So what are you suggesting?" Grandfather asked. "We find a more acceptable group of people, then bring the Sacrifice to them? How do you propose we find them, a Facebook post? 'Click here to apply for eternal life'?”

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Book:Devoted: An Elixir Novel

Source: Devoted: An Elixir Novel

“Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.”

Earth Grandfather My Grandfather Alps

Book:Heidi (Illustrated Edition): Classic of Children’s Literature

Source: Heidi (Illustrated Edition): Classic of Children’s Literature

“In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.”

People Stills School Young Cases Wise Grandfather Old People Lively

Book:Gertrude

Source: Gertrude

“The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late into the summer dusk down in the busy city for young Hildegarde whom he loved; the days before that when he sat smoking far into the night in the gloomy old Button house on Monroe Street with his grandfather-all these had faded like unsubstantial dreams from his mind as though they had never been. He did not remember.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.”

Source: Black Heart

“This doesn't mean you're getting a discount." Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then." Gnome choked on the soup. "I'm old enough to be your grandfather!" Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. "But you're not.”

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Book:Fate's Edge

Source: Fate's Edge

“They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud!”

Made Enough Naked Grandfather Mud

Book:Dragonfly

Source: Dragonfly

“It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.”

Ifs Knows Mean Play Teaching Okay Grandfather Cheat

Book:Black Heart

Source: Black Heart

“They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“He beat back the Greeks and reclaimed Rome for our people. Indeed, he was the one who destroyed the Macedonian threat and who single-handedly annihilated the greatest Greek general who had ever lived. Kyrian of Thrace.” Real hatred gleamed in his eyes, but she wasn’t sure who it was meant for. His grandfather or Kyrian. “You mean Kyrian Hunter?” she asked. “The guy with the minivan who lives a few blocks over?” Valerius’s eyes sparked at that. “He’s driving a minivan?” There was no mistaking the humor in his tone.”

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Book:Night Play

Source: Night Play

“Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.”

Running Generations Breaths Grandfather My Generation

Author:Stokely Carmichael

“Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.”

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Book:Holes

Source: Holes

“I don't know what you believe in. I believe we just stop. Because if we move on to an afterlife, any kind of afterlife, that means there will be other people there. I'm tired of the chit chat. Oh, that is a handsome boy. He takes after his grandfather. Did they change the breakfast again? It tastes different to me. For Eternity? No thanks.”

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Author:Joey Comeau

“She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.”

Ifs Way Doe Sometimes Gone Sorrow Grandfather Glances Alleys Already Gone

Book:Pure

Source: Pure

“You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.”

Knows Way Curious Manners Behave Professors Grandfather Bosoms Niece Bosom Friends

Book:The Fairyland Series

Source: The Fairyland Series

“Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur, and people become bound in their current problems. That which afflicted the grandfathers of their grandfathers is a distant, dim thing, and not as important as present concerns, no matter how trivial.”

People Humans Important Matter Problem Past Memories Human Beings Concern Bounds Forgotten Currents Bad Things Grandfather Flawed

Book:The High King's Tomb

Source: The High King's Tomb

“My grandfather stood beside me and looked across the street, too. "No, Bryce," he said softly. "She's the same as she's always been; you're the one who's changed." He clapped his hand on my shoulder and whispered, "And son, from here on out, you'll never be the same again.”

Said Hands Streets Changed Son Shoulders Grandfather My Grandfather Bryce Loski

Book:Flipped

Source: Flipped

“Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush”

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Author:Abbi Glines

“I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for almost three years, I managed not to miss any of them. And then I spent that one day with that one girl. One day ... It was like she gave me her whole self, and somehow as a result, I gave her more of myself than I even realized there was to give. But then she was gone. And only after I'd been filled up by her, by that day, did I understand how empty I really was.”

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Author:Gayle Forman

“I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.”

Remember Passion Loneliness Grandfather My Grandfather Being Alone

Author:Jim Harrison

“You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.”

Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony

“Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody's life and that we must dedicate our lives to pursuing truth, to finding out the truth in our lives. And so his entire philosophy was the philosophy of life. It was not just a philosophy for conflict resolution, but something that we have to imbibe in our life and live it all the time so that we can improve and become better human beings.”

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Author:Arun Manilal Gandhi

“The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.”

People Wells Age Young Mother Father Son Daughter Aging Hardest Grandmother Grandfather Son And Daughter

Author:Simeon Strunsky

“'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.”

Age Used Worry Grandfather My Grandfather Senility

Book:Time Flies

Source: Time Flies

“My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."”

Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works

“What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.”

“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”

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Author:Louis Adamic

“From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created.”

World War Dream Father Greater War Of The Worlds Germany Grandfather Our Father Fathers And Grandfathers

Author:Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

“Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.”

“To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."”

“My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.”

“Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.”

Company Joyful Grandfather Grandparent Fathers And Grandfathers

Author:William Shakespeare

“Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.”

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Author:John Wooden

“I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then, because my grandfather, Senator Gore, was blind, I was required early on to read grown-up books to him, mostly constitutional law and, of course, the Congressional Record. The later continence of my style is a miracle, considering those years of piping the additional remarks of Mr. Borah of Idaho.”

“The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.”

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Book:To Grandmother with Love: A Special Tribute

Source: To Grandmother with Love: A Special Tribute

“My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather.”

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Author:Leonard Marx

“Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.”

“If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.”

Earth Games Parent Sides Mom Travel China My Mom Soccer Australia Grandfather Funny Travel My Grandfather Gamer Soccer Game

Author:Brandi Chastain

“My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.”

Dad Died My Dad Cancer Genes Grandfather Uncles My Grandfather

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”

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Author:Lillian Gish