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grandfathers
«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
«Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Family,
Generations
| Keywords:
fathers, grandfathers, revolts
«I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.»
Author: Will Shriner
(Comedian)
| About:
Death and dying,
Funny
| Keywords:
car, Die in, grandfather, grandfathers, passenger, passengers, screamed, screaming, screams, sleep, sleeping car, sleep out, sleep over, The Cars, yelling
«Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.»
Author: John Wooden
| Keywords:
grandfathers
«Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers»
«I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
deathbed, deathbeds, grandfather, grandfathers, pocket, pocket watch, proud, proud of, sold
«I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Concern,
Family
| Keywords:
concerned, grandfather, grandfathers, grandson
«I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Family,
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
grandfather, grandfathers, grandson
«Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
grandfathers, valued