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“My grandfather created a fortune that allowed him to live in luxury. He also went on to build the first industrial building in an area of San Paulo that eventually became one of the largest wholesale neighborhoods in the world. When my grandfather passed away, he left millions of dollars to my family as an inheritance. That inheritance, however, would have been worthless if he had not also given us his legacy of personal responsibility and work ethic. My grandfather refused to be defined by others, therefore setting not only the value of his product, but also of himself and his family.”

Finance Self Empowerment Rabbi Celso

Author:Celso Cukierkorn

Source: Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland.”

Men Country Ocean Miles Immigrants Ireland Grandfather My Grandfather Atlantic Ocean

Author:Stephen Colbert

“My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.”

Way Writing War Wanted Parent Periods My Family Died Profound Defined Affected Grandfather My Grandfather Father Died Grandfather Died

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.”

Home Felt Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.”

War Example Died Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:James Nicoll

“My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!”

Night Style Red Wedding Frank Grandfather My Grandfather Glamour Wedding Day Wedding Night

Author:Anne Baxter

“My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn't have any hands or numbers. He says it's very accurate. I asked him what time it was. You can guess what he told me.”

Humor Hands Funny Numbers Watches Accurate Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Steven Wright

“My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.”

Inspiration Mother Creativity Inspire And Love Simplicity Cooks New Things Grandfather Flavor Aunt My Grandfather Food Love

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it”

Firsts Girl Tree Dancing Guitar Grandfather Palms My Grandfather Acoustics Palm Trees

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“My grandfather got me mad and I peed inside his orange juice and asked him if it's tangy.”

Ifs Family Mad Grandfather Orange Juice My Grandfather Orange Juice

Author:Cam'ron

“My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.”

World Important Book Three Influence Six Died Towns Miles Curious Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Umberto Eco

“My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.”

Wonderful Food Tables Cooking Culinary Funeral Grandfather Potatoes My Grandfather Salad Buffets Deceased Replica Potato Salad

Author:Woody Allen

“My grandfather had asked me many times whether I'd like to come to South Carolina with him. He wanted to introduce me to our people down there and I didn't want to go. In those days, the South was still a place where black kids were lynched. Something horrible could happen to you. I've had that feeling my whole life.”

People Want Stills Whole Feelings Happens Kids Wanted Black South Whole Life Horrible Introducing Grandfather My Grandfather Carolina South Carolina

Author:John Edgar Wideman

“My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.”

Writing Lines Newspapers Grandfather Reporters Uncles My Grandfather Good Writers Newspaper Reporters

Author:Gene Hackman

“My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.”

Wells Known Judging Grandfather Well Known My Grandfather Berlin

Author:Arnon Goldfinger

“My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of the family reveled in the petty and ordinary upstairs. Down there, I saw my black, ancient, ineluctable core exposed, like a crab forced out of its shell--dirty, vulnerable, and obscene. For the first time in my life, I was truly alone.”

Dark Family Growing Up Loneliness Relation Alone Vulnerability Family Drama Family History Relatability Basement Marilyn Manson Relating Ineluctable

Author:Marilyn Manson

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls.”

Two Girl Three Boys Happened Brother Dad My Dad Experiments My Brother Grandfather Uncles My Grandfather Two Brothers

Author:Greg Kinnear

“My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten." "Tell him to take out the goalie.”

Knows Has Beens Games Late Grandfather Beaten My Grandfather Goalies Very Depressed

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off.”

Humor Funny Air Cold Grandfather My Grandfather Balloons Cold Air Air Balloons

Author:Milton Jones

“My grandfather is from Ireland. His name is Florence McCarthy. He moved to New York in 1920. They used to beat him up because his name was Florence. He had to switch his name to Frank. And then this Christmas, he made an announcement - he goes, 'I'm switching me name back to Florence.' And we beat him up, 'cause it's a dumb name and he's old and weak and it was easy.”

Made Used Names Causes Easy New York Beats Weak Moved Dumb Ireland Frank Grandfather My Grandfather Announcements Switching Florence

Author:Greg Fitzsimmons

“My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather.”

Grandfather Grandchildren My Grandfather Great Grandfather

Author:Leonard Marx

“My grandfather is hard of hearing. He needs to read lips. I don't mind him reading lips, but he uses one of those yellow highlighters.”

Needs Mind Hard Use Reading Lips Hearing Yellow Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Brian Kiley

“My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.”

Father Sides Married Expected Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother Betrayed My Grandfather Descent Portuguese

Author:Fred D'Aguiar

“My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.”

Kings Dad My Dad Grandfather My Grandfather Butlers

Author:Adam Petty

“My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking through a lens: for a split second nothing else exists outside the frame.”

Two Happens Fall Splits Grandfather Lenses Cousin My Grandfather Falling Off

Author:Martine Franck

“My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.”

Years Made Home Song Heard Garden Radio Invention Grandfather My Grandfather Keyboards Attics Appliances Over 50

Author:Michel Gondry

“My grandfather lived alone in this room with no one to love for twenty-six years. That kind of loneliness takes real strength.”

Strength Lonely

Author:uzodinma iweala

Source: Speak No Evil

“My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.”

Years States Age Culture Language Born New York Towns Spokes Southern Grandfather My Grandfather Southern Italy

Author:Abel Ferrara

“My grandfather often felt frustrated or baffled by my grandmother's illness, but when it came to the origins of the Skinless Horse he thought he understood. The Skinless Horse was a creature sworn to pursue my grandmother no matter where she went on the face of the globe, whispering to her in the foulest terms of her crimes and the blackness of her soul. There was a voice like that in everyone's head, he figured; in my grandmother's case it was just a matter of degree. You could almost see the Skinless Horse as a clever adapation, a strategy for survival evolved by a proven survivor. If you kept the voice inside your head, the way most people did, there could really be only one way to silence it. He admired the defiance, the refusal to surrender, involuntary but implicit in the act of moving that reproachful whisperer to a shadowy corner of a room, an iron furnace in a cellar, the branches of a grand old tree.”

Strength Survival Mental Illness Dilusional Moonglow

Author:Michael Chabon

Source: Moonglow

“My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.”

Mother House Sides Technology Lawyer Professors One Time Engineering Speakers Grandfather Representatives My Grandfather Institute Tennessee Massachusetts House Of Representatives

Author:Kenneth G. Wilson

“My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!”

Sides Ability Car Built Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Richard Hammond

“My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.”

Reading Maine Gilead

Author:Marilynne Robinson

Source: Gilead

“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

“My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.”

Kind Has Beens Play Hands Found Streets Mines Late Too Late Grandfather My Grandfather Fiddle Banjos

Author:Brendan Gleeson

“My grandfather's name was Arthur, and he talked all the time about his arthritis but pronounced it autha-itis, so for months I thought it was a condition unique to him, that he had his own special burden, just like my brother and me.”

Poetry Poem Aging Burdens Arthritis Grandfathers

Author:Michael Kleber-Diggs

Source: Worldly Things

“My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."”

Knows Age Comedy Aging Hypocrisy Getting Old Getting Older Senile

Author:Bill Cosby

“My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.”

Said Book Hands Moving Opportunity Inches Grandfather Volume My Grandfather

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

Source: The Namesake: A Novel

“My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.”

Mines Died Finished Grandfather Autobiography My Grandfather

Author:Karrine Steffans

“My grandfather stood beside me and looked across the street, too. "No, Bryce," he said softly. "She's the same as she's always been; you're the one who's changed." He clapped his hand on my shoulder and whispered, "And son, from here on out, you'll never be the same again.”

Said Hands Streets Changed Son Shoulders Grandfather My Grandfather Bryce Loski

Author:Wendelin Van Draanen

Source: Flipped

“My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.”

Years Hands Taught Couple Let Me Snow Generosity Grandfather My Grandfather Harlem Cones

Author:Erik Estrada

“My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open,because you never know what's going to come your way.”

Knows Way Important Eye Taught Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Bobbi Brown

“My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.”

Kind Taught Harder Clever Be Kind Teamwork Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Jeff Bezos

“My grandfather...The last thing he said to my mother was "Your mother loves you"...Years later it occurred to me that when someone says what my grandfather did, what they mean, what would be far more accurate, is "She is trying to love you as best she can." This might be okay with you, or it might now be what you need at all...and now I am forty years old...I don't have a daughter and I don't know if I ever will. But if I do, we will not carry this sadness forward. I'm tired of holding it.”

Generational

Author:Jessica Francis Kane

Source: Rules for Visiting

“My grandfather understood the comfort there is in shared silence.”

Silence

Author:Axie Oh

Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“My grandfather used to say 'Eat the biggest crabs first, that way you're always eating the biggest crabs.' In making a TV show, that means if you have a big funny or smart idea for an episode or a scene or a joke, go for it. Don't save it for another season or another episode, because you may not have the right time again. It's good advice for television, but truly stellar advice for eating crabs.”

“My grandfather used to say I don't care how you talk about me, good or bad, just don't leave me out of the conversation.”

Care Used Conversation Don't Care I Don't Care Grandfather Leaving Me My Grandfather Don't Leave Me

Author:George Thorogood

“My grandfather used to say ‘It is my house I am paying the bills’, my dad used to say ‘this is my house I pay the mortgage’, my generation is saying this is my house I pay the rent.”

People Home House Money Bills Property Finance Mortgage Generation Real Estate

Author:Csaba Gabor

“My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.”

Real Bigs Used Boys Agree Tricks Prize Grandfather My Grandfather Knocked Down

Author:Kevin Allen

“My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is true: at this time of year, when days are short and dark, and one hardly dares to open the newspapers, I turn, not vainly either, to the great creators of the past for distraction, solace and help.”

Life Years Art Helping Past Used Turns Literature Dark Advice Dare Creator Newspapers Distraction Grandfather My Grandfather Solace Art Music

Author:Paul Johnson

“My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.”

Men May Seems Young Life Is Used Fall Next Journey Needed Normal Accidents Instance Young Man Over It Village Happy Life Grandfather Looking Back My Grandfather Being Afraid

Author:Franz Kafka

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