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“My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.”

Knows Long Kids House Born Four Alive Streets Mom Died My Mom Grandfather Hung My Grandfather Widows Old Woman Father Died Preschool Widowed Grandfather Died

Author:Jen Kirkman

“I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.”

Years Looks Stills Pieces Military Changed Wall Members Paper Shots My Family Green Pockets Chemicals Grandfather Family Members Colonels Confederate Composites Great Grandfather Cavalry

Author:Anson Mount

“In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'”

Doe Care Grandfather My Grandfather Vernacular

Author:Herman Cain

“I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.”

Knows Way Years Looks Country States Evolution Blessing South Evolve Wow Grandfather My Grandfather Carolina South Carolina

Author:Tim Scott

“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.”

Knows Mom My Mom Grandfather Uncles Aunt My Grandfather Smokers

Author:Jane Smiley

“Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.”

Wonderful Husband Saint Grandfather

Author:Pat Conroy

“George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).”

Father President Class Generations Century Standards Former Attractive Grandfather Nazi Eastern Bankers 19th Century 1930s Yale Upper Class Poppies Wasps

Author:Peter York

“Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.”

World Age Aging Grandfather Grandparent Educator Parents And Grandparents Grandparents Day Best Grandparents

Book:Grandparents: Then God Created Grandparents and It Was Very Good

Source: Grandparents: Then God Created Grandparents and It Was Very Good

“Grandfather says that when your friends die you must not cry. You must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You must not fight. Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life.”

Giving Dies Fighting Hurt Cry Satisfaction Harm Native Grandfather Native American Satisfaction In Life

Author:Wovoka

“If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?”

“My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.”

Kind Ends Together Tears Mom Laughter My Mom Driven Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother Get Together Family Get Together

Author:Yelawolf

“To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.”

Should Home School Purpose Realizing Advice Masters Expenses Grandfather Great Grandfather

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.”

Kind Taught Harder Clever Be Kind Teamwork Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Jeff Bezos

“My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies.”

Men I Can Baby Grandfather My Grandfather Having A Baby

Author:Enrique Iglesias

“I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.”

Knows Writing Littles Kids Easy Stuff Black Farms Grandfather Little Kid Spiders My Grandfather Widows Boyhood Black Widow

Author:Kary Mullis

“I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.”

Player Fields Quiet Credit Speed Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Chris Davis

“A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'”

Ifs Feels Heart Said Two Success Fighting Winning Felt Talking My Heart Words Of Wisdom Violent Native Compassionate Grandfather Native American Grandson Vengeful Two Wolves

Author:Black Hawk

“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

“But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.”

Men Firsts Remember Profession Grandfather Sections My Grandfather Pioneers

Author:Robert E. Howard

“In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions... and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity."”

Years Facts Form Animal Transformation Seven Perpetual Grandfather Seven Years Posterity Exertion Propensity

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.”

Father Individual Saws Lawyer Farmers Grandfather Elegant My Grandfather Cuba Miami

Author:Andy Garcia

“Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother was German and my maternal grandfather was Greek. The next time I fill out one of those forms I am going to check 'Other' and write in the truth about my racial and cultural heritage: 'African-Greek-German-American.' And proud of it.”

Thinking Should Writing America Form Next Proud Boxes Checks African American Greek Grandmother Heritage Grandfather Next Time Cultural Heritage Hominids

Book:Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

“Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.”

Used Steps Path Stones Construction Grandfather Cathedrals Great Grandfather

Book:Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

“Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m looking for a fat, cross-eyed hunchback,' he explains, stifling a giggle. 'A prosthetic hump would do.' His delight evaporates when asked about his three grandchildren. 'Am I a doting grandfather?' He pauses. 'I’m a … something grandfather, yes.' The fact that De Bono remains unperturbed by this lack betrays an emotionally austere childhood, and his passions for play, toys, and bad jokes tell of the same deprivation.”

“Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.”

Waiting Growing Up Growing Youth Flower Thanks Grandfather Mistress My Grandfather Proper Time

Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.”

Thinking Way School Father Stars Lines White Player Military Dad My Dad Halls Grandfather My Grandfather Orphan Trumpets Military School

Author:Elvis Costello

“My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.”

Different Play Wanted Father Dad My Dad Grandfather My Grandfather Dots Different Music

Author:Elvis Costello

“When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.”

Mean Littles Made Stills Feelings Kids Remember Saws Magic Universal Studios Tricks Grandfather Glimpse Little Kid My Grandfather Magic Tricks Universal Studios

Author:J. J. Abrams

“My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the 70s.”

Wells Bigs Company Records Brother Jazz Albums Producers Labels Mainstream Bob Grandfather My Grandfather Charlie Legendary Jazz And Blues

Author:Judd Apatow

“My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.”

Found Fun Horse Lifestyle Racing Grandfather Journal Parallels My Grandfather Skiing Horse Racing

Author:Bode Miller

“My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.”

Men Firsts Father Blood Adventure Ocean My Family Exploration Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Bertrand Piccard

“The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.”

Source: All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

“The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.”

Truth Is Wealthy Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Mohamed Al-Fayed

“It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.”

Thinking Men Kind Death Used Rooms Particular Used To Be Loud Grandfather Desks Thoughts Of Death

Book:FAULKNER READER

Source: FAULKNER READER

“After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.”

Way Firsts Said Enemy Fire Land Available British Planes Classic Denied Grandfather Permission They Said Coast My Grandfather

Author:Tom Hooper

“The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines.”

People Use Lines Humour Findings Chinese Grandfather Inventing Pacific Gunpowder Inventiveness Firecracker

Author:Lin Yutang

“It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.”

May Criminals Smoke Noses Bad Things Ancestor Grandfather Arsonists

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.”

Ifs Soul Religion Jesus Fear Known Humble Awe Grandfather

Author:Khalil Gibran

“I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.”

Window Died Grandfather Crash Crushed My Grandfather Stockbrokers

Author:Mario Cuomo

“Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs... have usurped a large part of the soil.”

Men Littles Stills Father Son Sorrow Driven Spots Obedience Excellent Soil Sincere Reverence Grandfather Cheerful My Grandfather Recollection Mansions Stewards Swarms Contractor Tenants

Author:William Cobbett

“I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.”

Ifs Men Feels Has Beens Dream Boys Old Man Grandfather My Grandfather

Book:The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.”

Real Remember Sides Generations Dad Tough Originals My Dad Bunch Grandfather Sober Bizarre Strain Remember When Alcoholism Colony

Author:Sam Shepard

“People can't believe how hard I work.... I love it. I think it just runs through my veins. My great-grandfather was a bellboy and had a dream to do a hotel chain, so I think I get it from him.”

People Thinking Believe Hard Dream Running Chains Hotel Grandfather Veins Great Grandfather

Author:Paris Hilton

“It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.”

Want Made Blood Son Tradition Wine My Son Grandfather Great Grandfather

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism.”

World Self Economy Trade Investment International Scales Destroyed Sufficient Nationalism Grandfather Inward Self Sufficient Large Scale Great Grandfather International Trade National Economy

Author:Paul Krugman

“The family believes that my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a horrible injustice. We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well.”

Way Believe Wells Country Felt Risk Duty Hero Mark Injustice Horrible Grandfather Sincerely My Grandfather Great American Call Of Duty Above And Beyond American Hero

Author:Mark Felt

“My mother and grandmothers could never have lived my life; my father and my grandfathers could never have imagined it. But they bestowed on me the promise of America, which made my life and my choices possible.”

Made America Mother Choices Father Promise Grandmother Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Hillary Clinton

“My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.”

People May Persons Art Book Past Used Quality Just One Concentration Works Of Art Grandfather Impressed Gifted Deep Thought My Grandfather Literary Works

Author:Aga Khan IV

“My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.”

War Example Died Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:James Nicoll

“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.”

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