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Grandparents and Ancestors
Flann O'Brien
Our Irish ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that list up as “Irish politics.”
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Woody Allen
I’m very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
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Henny Youngman
My grandmother is over 80 and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
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Orson Welles
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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Hervey Allen
I played with my grandfather a lot when I was a kid. He was dead, but my parents had him cremated and put his ashes in an Etch-a-Sketch.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them back with sacrifices and accomplishments; one thus recognizes a debt that constantly grows greater, since these forebears never cease, in their continued existence as powerful spirits, to accord the tribe new advantages and new strength.
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Jean Paul
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world; but it will be heard by posterity.
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Abraham Lincoln
I don’t know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children—and what an inhuman world, without the aged.
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Helen Keller
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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