Quotes with great-grandparents

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  • Billy Martin Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
    Billy Martin
    American Major League Baseball player and manager (1928 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carrie Fisher Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Augustus William Hare Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Carson Daly MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Bayard Rustin My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Mark Twain My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
    The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bryan Greenberg My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to - Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang - was coming out of New York. I'm just into it.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • John Lennon My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Bruce Robinson My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Lee Iacocca My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Barrett Foa My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
    Barrett Foa
    American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor (1977 - )
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  • Camille Paglia My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Lord George Byron My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Abraham Lincoln My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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