#grand

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

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Never have children, only grandchildren. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#grandchildren #never #only

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#back #civilization #dark #dark ages #does

The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

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I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#grand #i #kind #like #need

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#company #esteem #find #grandest #happened

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside. ↗

— David Suzuki

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For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority. ↗

— David Suzuki

#economic #even #grandchildren #health #make

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child. ↗

— David Suzuki

#being #child #eyes #getting #grandparent

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

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