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I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.

~Dwight Yoakam

Topics: Being Between Born Child Columbus County Down Escape Experiencing Grandson His Kentucky Life Luther Miner Nor Ohio People Raised Route Traveling Up Up And Down Via Want Where Wife Working-Class I Was Raised

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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: About Admired Agriculture American Dedication Farmers Grandson Illinois Innovation Long Role Work Written

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The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Achievement Grandson Kim Politics Power Son Sung Un Unique World

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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.

~Fidel Castro

Topics: Am Exploited Good Grandson Let Us Peasants Rather Say Son Sound Too Us I Am

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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

~Foster Friess

Topics: Coal Dad Grandson His Hospital Manager Miner Rick

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I never think I'm old enough to play someone's dad, even though I have a daughter of my own and a grandson.

~Fred Willard

Topics: Dad Daughter Enough Even Grandson My Own Never Old Old Enough Own Play Someone Think Though

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Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.

~Gary Bettman

Topics: Ability Around Circles Consider Fact Far Grandson In Fact Me Put Skate Skating Skiing Superior Way Would

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I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world, seeking new opportunities. My mother was born in Sacramento, California. My father was a San Franciscan. They met and married in Los Angeles, and I was born there.

~George Takei

Topics: Am America Angeles Boldly Born California Father Going Grandson Immigrants Japan Los Los Angeles Married Met Mother New New Opportunities New World Opportunities San Seeking Strange Who World I Am I Was Born

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