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Grandfather Quotes by Tea Obreht
- In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.
- My grandfather and I were very close.
- For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with…
- Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories…
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- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough
- My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested… — Dan Aykroyd
- Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of… — Drew Barrymore
- Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. — Stokely Carmichael
- My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him… — Julian Clary
- I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. — Woody Allen
- We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they… — C.S. Lewis
- Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. — Lewis Mumford
- My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. — 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… — Marcus Aurelius