28 Grandfathers Quotes for You to Enjoy

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. Stokely Carmichael

Generation Breath Our Out Run Running More Had Grandfathers

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 even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura Ingalls Wilder

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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 met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. 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 the dark ages. Gertrude Stein

Farmers are always conservative. They stick to what they have learned from their fathers and from their grandfathers. This is the same all over the globe. Helmut Schmidt

Conservative Fathers Over Globe Learned Stick Always Same Grandfathers Farmers

My two grandfathers fought in World War II. Ainsley Earhardt

War World Grandfathers Fought Two World War World War II

Bond is actually my dream role. Only because it was the film I watched with my grandfathers and father from a very young age, and it would be the only way that I could actually repay them with my art form for what they've done for me. Aneurin Barnard

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Both grandfathers fought in different wars. My mother's father fought in World War II, and then my father's father fought in Korea. And they're both these country boys, one from rural Tennessee and one from rural Louisiana - and they never went back home. Dee Rees

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, make a lot of money and then come out and be good grandfathers. George Foreman

My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians. Hill Harper

Parents Both Physicians Were Grandfathers

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. James Loeb

Time Day Made Past Rich Our Ancient Out Classical Give Could Student Attention Schools Enable Afford Get Literature Grandfathers Languages Teaching Lives Sufficient Enjoyment

My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant, so to speak, from the South. My grandfather was born in South Carolina - well, both grandfathers were born in the South. John Edgar Wideman

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Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books. Jon Meacham

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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 Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood. Kevin Powers

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Both of my grandfathers were in the service. It's one of those things that you can't be thankful enough for. Luke Combs

Thankful Service You Enough Those Be Thankful Both Were Grandfathers Things

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. Robert E. Howard

Failure Man Remember First Whatever Living Earn Section Writer Were His Pioneer Just Grandfathers Profession Thing

We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing. Roger Mahony

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Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians. Sturgill Simpson

Musicians Mother Brother Both Were Grandfathers

Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation. Susan Vreeland

Art Young Pursued Lifelong Never Had Although Always Been Very Artists Oil Interested Grandfathers Exposed Painters Even Career Two

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