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#grandfathers

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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.


Lewis Mumford


#every #fathers #friends #generation #grandfathers

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.


Black Elk


#clouds #come #drought #earth #gave

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.


James Loeb


#ancient #attention #classical #could #day

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.


Jon Meacham


#around #because #being #books #both

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.


William Feather


#could #doing #followed #grandfathers #known

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.


Tom Hiddleston


#chance #city #even #everything #got

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.


Christopher Walken


#before #fathers #get #glad #grandfathers

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.


Max von Sydow


#get #grandfathers #i #offers #often






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