My Grandfather Quotes
316 My Grandfather quotes by 274 unique authors
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When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least…
— J. J. Abrams
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
— David Attenborough
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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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 a lot and…
— Julian Clary
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I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
— Woody Allen
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My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
— Louis Adamic
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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…
— Marcus Aurelius
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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,…
— Gore Vidal
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My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather.
— Leonard Marx
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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…
— William J. Clinton
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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…
— Brandi Chastain
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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.…
— Lillian Gish
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At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures…
— Jesse L. Greenstein
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As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.
— Ernest L. Boyer
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Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as…
— Giada De Laurentiis
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Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they…
— John Templeton
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A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today…
— John Templeton
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While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it was in the…
— Stephen Roche
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A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a…
— Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
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As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of those who had…
— Neville Bonner
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I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of…
— Michel Gondry
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
— Parker Posey
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My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there.
— Unknown Author
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My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.
— Adam Petty
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I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union…
— Jim Renacci
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