Rand Paul
Politician
"My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream."
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Grandfather
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Will Graham
Author
"It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor."
Arun Manilal Gandhi
Activist, Author
"Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody's life and that we must dedicate our lives to pursuing truth, to finding out the truth in our lives. And so his entire philosophy was the philosophy of life. It was not just a philosophy for conflict resolution, but something that we have to imbibe in our life and live it all the time so that we can improve and become better human beings."
Roy Barnes
Politician
"We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg."
Martin Buber
Philosopher
"A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story."
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"I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain."
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"One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!"
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"Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather."
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"You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side."
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"My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather."
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"My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever."
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"Donald Trump unveiled his immigration policy and now he's getting a lot of flak. His policy would have prevented his own grandfather from coming to America. That explains his new campaign slogan: 'Vote Trump to prevent another Trump.'"
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"My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him."
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"A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did."
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"My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway."
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"To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson."
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"Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company."
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"In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process."
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"If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessing great means and influence and yet who employs those faculties for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion-I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape."
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"I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket."
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"The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines."
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"I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested."
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"In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions... and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity.""
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"When I sat there in 1971 and watched my grandfather open Walt Disney World, I was a little 11-year-old girl who worshiped the ground he walked on. You probably couldn't have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company."
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"Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own."
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