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Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands. — Pat Conroy
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… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in… — Robert E. Howard
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch
You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed… — Black Elk
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known… — William Feather
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of… — Tom Hiddleston
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in… — Jon Meacham
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the… — Kevin Powers
It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never… — Gene Simmons
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to… — Gertrude Stein
I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and… — Christopher Walken
A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at… — Isaac Babel
Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of… — Tamora Pierce
a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You didn't know I could do that, did you?" he asked, conversationally. "I did not, Your Majesty," Teleus gasped. "My grandfather killed a man that… — Megan Whalen Turner
I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in front of the mirror, and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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… — Hermann Hesse
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,… — Kristen Britain
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… — Chief Seattle
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… — Simeon Strunsky
My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians. — Hill Harper
The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go into the sport,… — George Foreman
Life is comprised of 3 stagies which is: childern to boys, boys to men, men to grandfathers. — Simphiwe

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