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Letter "G" » grandfather
«The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.»
Author: Bern Williams
| Keywords:
brag, bragging, brags, bristle, bristles, bristling, bristling with, discovers, dishonest, grandfather, grandfathers, great grandfather, His father, pirate, pirates
«My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.»
Author: Indira Gandhi
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Family,
People
| Keywords:
competition, competitions, credit, First Group, grandfather, grandfathers, group, groups of people, group of people
«You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.»
«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.»
«My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.»
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Composer)
| Keywords:
eloquently, grandfather, grandmother, great grandfather, great grandmother, Great One, in turn, Mothers And Daughters, repeated
«You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Doing Your Best,
Growing up
| Keywords:
grandfather, grandfathers, tall
«The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bills, Bill of Rights, broke, collect, go up, grandfather, great grandfather, hardware, hardware store, laughed, leg, nugget, peter out, plus, The Doctor, turned out, volcano, volcanoes
«To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
dispense with, grandfather, great grandfather, grudged, owed
«When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
closet, closeted, closets, come out of the closet, elevator, Elevators, five, grandfather, grandfathers, made use of, minutes, moving, practice, stand, stand in, the closet, used, used to
«There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Family love,
Fathers
| Keywords:
adore, grandfather, grandson
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