I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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As quoted in The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln (1896) by Ida TarbellAbraham Lincoln
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son,
the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers,
a tiny creature, made up of two pupils
and whatever simply could not be left out...Wislawa Szymborska
Igor: My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course the rates have gone up.
Mel Brooks
"My grandfather asked in his will that whenever it became possible, his name should be cleared so that he would no longer be denounced as a 'traitor to patriotism'. My grandfather has had a great effect on me during my life."
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
But then if you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather.
Mike Huckabee
These problems never seemed to baffle my grandfather nor cause him any anxiety; difficulties which in most people's eyes would have led to endless complications were disposed of by my grandfather almost without thinking, with the easy assurance of a sleepwalker who strolls along a ledge halfway down a hundred-foot precipice—yes, I am tempted to say with the same disregard for the laws of nature as a ghost passing through locked doors.
Halldor Laxness
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