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History is as Old as My Grandfather -- Adolf Hitler
My Grandfather always said,'Rian,if you were a leader of a nation and your nation was in war with other nation,before you deliver a troops,you better know what you fighting for,okay? -- Faris R.P
Rock is my child and my grandfather. -- Chuck Berry
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. -- Louis Adamic
My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler. -- Adam Petty
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. -- Woody Allen
I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality. -- Lenny Kravitz
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. -- Abraham Lincoln
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather. -- James Earl Jones
My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there. -- Ron Richards
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car. -- Will Rogers
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 with my grandfather. -- William J. Clinton
My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. -- Stephen Colbert
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 such things money should be eagerly spent. -- Marcus Aurelius
My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food. -- Giada De Laurentiis
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. -- Mickey Mantle
I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life. -- Stephen Roche
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. -- Bode Miller
I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy! -- Chris Colfer
My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky. -- Eth Clifford
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. -- Indira Gandhi
My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things. -- Clarence Thomas
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 little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change? -- Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.... My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather would say we ought to go out and look at it once in a while so we don't lose our place in it. -- Robert Fulghum
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. -- Judd Apatow
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. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. -- Lillian Gish
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. -- Ray Bradbury
My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. -- Billy Ray Cyrus
My grandfather was a great chef. -- Douglas Booth
My grandfather and I were very close. -- Tea Obreht
My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics. -- Thomas Ligotti
My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather. -- Leonard Marx
My grandfather went through a lot in his life. -- Novak Djokovic
My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know. -- Stephanie Zimbalist
My grandfather's death was really hard to deal with. -- Casey Eastham
My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin. -- Arnon Goldfinger
The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins. -- Jose Andres Puerta
'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say. -- Bill Cosby
My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York. -- Armie Hammer
My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing. -- Richard Paul Evans
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white. -- Muhammad Ali
I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather. -- Nik Wallenda
In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.' -- Herman Cain
The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder. -- Mohamed Al-Fayed
My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out. -- Kent Beck
For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth. -- Peter Capaldi
We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg. -- Roy Barnes
My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell. -- Parker Posey
My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. -- Temple Grandin
I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot. -- Nelly Furtado
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. -- Dave Van Ronk
Even today a lot of people know me because of my grandfather. -- Chris Paul
My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. -- Henry Louis Gates
My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University. -- Joe Biden
Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!' -- Emo Philips
My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off. -- Milton Jones
My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right. -- Dan Quayle
Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic? -- Georgette Heyer
Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally. -- Creed Bratton
My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream. -- Rand Paul
Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth. -- Johanna Spyri
As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California. -- Armie Hammer
If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company. -- John F. Kennedy
I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous. -- Kim Weston
My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there. -- Rupert Everett
My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets. -- Cassandra Clare
Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile. -- Chris Hardwick
My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors. -- Rand Paul
Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father. -- Jamie Wyeth
Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. -- Pete Seeger
The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die. -- Chris Hardwick
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. -- Alan Garner
My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States. -- Emanuel Celler
I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen. -- Robin Tunney
My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband. -- Pamela Anderson
My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs. -- Gillian Jacobs
My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet. -- Laird Barron
My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies. -- Enrique Iglesias
My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death. -- Laila Ali
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. -- Black Elk
My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better. -- Elle Jasper
My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour! -- Anne Baxter
My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s. -- James Nicoll
Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say. -- Phil Cousineau
I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy. -- Giada De Laurentiis
My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever. -- Jeff Bezos
My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father. -- Alice Hoffman
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad. -- Bill Moseley
My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning. -- Harley Viera-Newton
My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do. -- Nik Wallenda
My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler. -- Nick Harkaway
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack. -- John Malkovich
As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right? -- Andrew Cuomo
My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars. -- Woody Allen
I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man. -- Illeana Douglas
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania. -- Irwin Thomas
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My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out. -- Leigh Steinberg
My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values. -- Zarin Mehta
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. -- Erica Jong
I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep. -- John F. Kennedy
When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. -- Louis Sachar
I don't know who my grandfather was I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be -- Abraham Lincoln
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer. -- Hill Harper
My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth. -- Alexandra Stoddard
You might be a redneck if your grandfather completely executes the pull my finger trick at the family reunion. -- Jeff Foxworthy
In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers. -- Tea Obreht
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. -- Dan Fogelberg
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it -- Dan Fogelberg
My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34. -- John Gokongwei
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 grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. -- David Rockefeller
When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang. -- Terry Pratchett
My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family. -- Tagg Romney
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much. -- Gertrude B. Elion
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him. -- Yancy Butler
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. -- Clarence Thomas
Today is my grandfather's birthday." "How old is he?" "Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being. -- Charles M. Schulz

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