Grandfather Quotes
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I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
Will Shriner
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A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandf...
Native American Proverb
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A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandf...
Native American Proverb
Keywords: american :: and :: boy :: each :: fear :: first :: grandfather :: grandson :: greed :: has :: hatred :: he :: him :: his :: inside :: is :: kindness :: love :: native :: of :: other :: peace :: struggling :: talking :: tells :: the :: to :: two :: which :: will :: win :: with :: wolf :: wolves :: youngSource: thinkexist.com
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Thousands of men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of men buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered, children killed before their mothers` eyes, a grandfather forced to eat the liver of his own grandson. These are truly scenes from ...
Fouad Riad
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln
Keywords: do :: grandfather :: growing :: have :: how :: matter :: no :: own :: tall :: to :: was :: you :: yourSubject: Doing Your Best Quotes :: Growing Up QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I don`t know who my grandfather was; I`m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Kahlil Gibran
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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.
Kahlil Gibran
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One of the proud moments for us was Robert Wise, who directed Sound of Music and West Side Story, he is the great-great grandfather of musical cinema and he said, I`ve seen Moulin Rouge and the musical has been re-invented." I bring this up because you ge...
Baz Luhrmann
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I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it`s kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don`t know about any others....
Mandy Moore
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My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I`d stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I rem...
Forest Whitaker
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[describing to David Letterman her eccentric family`s devotion to their patriarch`s invention of the Delany flush valve] My grandfather used to say, "It may be shit to you, but it`s our bread and butter."
Dana Delany
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There were times I was thinking, `What am I doing, this is crazy`. I was scared because I had no money and no ticket home. That is the time when everyone else packs up and leaves. But I remembered everything my grandfather taught me about the work ethic b...
Alex O`Loughlin
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My grandfather was a farmer so I was always raised that you worked very hard whatever your job is; my sister was a teacher. You`re to be respected if you try hard and try to be good at something and the results are less important. You can`t control that. ...
Vince Vaughn
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My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it`s kind of become a way of life for me. I could al...
Giovanni Ribisi
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I don`t really think about carrying on the family racing name, I`m just so proud of my family and real proud to be involved with my father in racing. It`s a good relationship. I`m proud of my father and grandfather and what they`ve done.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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My family emigrated during the revolution. My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early `20s. My mother`s family came over from Ire...
Alexis Denisof
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My grandfather was a very talented man but he was never part of my emotional life so I refuse to make him part of my professional life. -On his grandfather, Jackie Gleason.
Jason Patric
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My grandfather was a very talented man but he was never part of my emotional life so I refuse to make him part of my professional life. -On his grandfather, Jackie Gleason.
Jason Patric
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I was raised by my grandparents, the greatest people in the world. I try to tell them, `You`re not going to hear my music on the radio. I`m not going to be on soap operas singing this.` I can imagine what my grandfather tells people: `It`s called Nine Inc...
Trent Reznor
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There were stories in the house of what had happened to them (her grandparents during the Holocaust), and it wasn`t that much talked about. I had to go on a website to read my grandfather`s descriptions of what happened to the family.
Natalie Portman
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[on what keeps him humble] You know, I telephoned my grandparents the other day, and my grandfather said to me, "We saw your movie." "Which one?" I said, and he shouted, "Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn`t like?" I thought that was just class...
Brad Pitt
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My grandfather was a Polish Jew and a socialist, and as a youngster he helped to organize special camps to teach agriculture to all the young men that were moving to Israel, where in 1930, they created the first kibbutz.
Natalie Portman
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[on growing up in L.A.] I never really belonged anywhere. I wasn`t white. I was shunned by the Latin community for not being Latin enough. My grandfather was the only one in our family to go to college. He made a choice not to speak Spanish in the house. ...
Jessica Alba
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My grandfather was the only Mexican at his college, the only Hispanic person at work and the only one at the all-white country club. He tried to forget his Mexican roots, because he never wanted his kids to be made to feel different in America. He and my ...
Jessica Alba
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Lionel Barrymore first played my grandfather, later my father, and finally, he played my husband. If he`d lived, I`m sure I`d have played his mother. That`s the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
Lillian Gish
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I am perhaps the best-looking grandfather around, apart from Marlon Brando, of course!
Robert Redford
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I`ve always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history. My dad grew up on a farm in Oklahoma and remembers playing with his toy tractor under the table while the local farmers talked with his grandfather abo...
Ron Howard
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You`ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Andrey Denisov
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You come on as a guest. You don`t get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.
Albert Finney
