quotes about Grandpa
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I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.
-- Ben VereenSource : "Ben Vereen: Usher’s Godfather Continues to Evolve". Interview with Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.
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I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.
-- Billy Crystal -
Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.
-- Blake Shelton -
I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.
-- Brandon Mull -
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I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.
-- Brett Eldredge -
I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."
-- Channing Tatum -
My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'
-- Curtis Jackson -
Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.
-- David AlmondSource : David Almond (2014). “Kit's Wilderness”, p.76, Hachette UK
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Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.
-- David Ebershoff -
One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa - twins. And I'm buying JJ, Pfizer and Warner for their future college funds.
-- David O. Sacks -
Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.
-- Debbie MacomberSource : Debbie Macomber (2013). “Texas Two-Step”, p.98, Harlequin
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Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?
-- E. L. Konigsburg -
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Things change when someone special comes into your life. Both sides have to give up things. The one thing you don't give up in a good relationship is you--whatever makes you most you. - Jim Olsten (Jane's Grandpa)
-- Elizabeth Chandler -
It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.
-- Ellen Goodman -
Your Grandpa was a boxer in his youth. Sexiest thing I'd ever seen, let me tell you. He wore these short little shorts, and was always dripping in sweat." There goes my appetite.
-- Gena Showalter -
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Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
-- James Earl Jones -
I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.
-- James Hansen -
They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.
-- James Lee -
Grandpa did everything at his own pace, a speed that my sister and I referred to as 'when snails attack.' ... My grandparents' house was only about ten miles from ours, but the ride there would necessitate sandwiches packed for the trip, and several books to keep us occupied.
-- Jenny Lawson -
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So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.
-- Leigh Steinberg -
You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.
-- Lowell GanzSource : "Fictional character: Grandma". "Parenthood", www.imdb.com. 1989.
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I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.
-- Merrill MarkoeSource : Merrill Markoe (2006). “Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel”, p.208, Villard
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Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.
-- Miles FranklinSource : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.66, ETT Imprint
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When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
-- Natalie Portman -
I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
-- Odette Annable -
Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me We in like that, you're dead like Presley
-- Q-Tip -
It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.
-- Ray Bradbury -
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I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe
-- Roald Dahl -
I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa
-- Sammy Hagar -
What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.
-- Sergei Lukyanenko -
Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
-- Shania Twain -
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We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.
-- Steven Tyler -
Vikus looked at Luxa and opened his arms. She stood, still frozen, staring at him as if he were a complete stranger. "Luxa, it's your grandpa," said Gregor. It seemed like the best and most important thing to say at the moment. "It's your grandpa." Luxa blinked. A tiny tear formed at the corner of her eye. A battle took place on her face as she tried to stop the feelings rising up inside her. The feelings won, and to Gregor's great relief, she ran into Vikus's arms.
-- Suzanne Collins -
I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.
-- Gene PerretSource : Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways
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"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.
-- Gene Perret -
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My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once, when I was twelve, my mom and I were driving and we saw my grandpa staggering drunk down the street. I asked if we should stop and help him. My mom sadly shook her head and kept driving.
-- Brian Lindstrom -
I think in many ways what my films are about is that search for my grandpa's dentures: for that humanizing narrative that bridges the gap between "us" and "them" to arrive at a "we."
-- Brian Lindstrom -
As far as I know, no one in the Kaufman or Hart clan was the basis for anyone in the play. I think we all wish we had a Grandpa, Penny, and Mr. De Pinna in our families.
-- Chris HartSource : Source: blog.roundabouttheatre.org
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When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar.
-- Phillip Adams -
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My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.'
-- Rachel BloomSource : Source: www.elle.com
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"You're really not that old." You know, the old grandpa thing - Grandpa Rossy with KB [Kris Bryant] and Rizz [Anthony Rizzo]. That's how everyone treats me.
-- David RossSource : Source: espn.go.com