“My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the 70s.” WellsBigsCompanyRecordsBrotherJazzAlbumsProducersLabelsMainstreamBobGrandfatherMy GrandfatherCharlieLegendaryJazz And Blues Author:Judd Apatow
“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.” EndsBodyCareFallChurchSacrificeChildhoodBrotherSaintDon't CareInsaneCommunismI Don't CareOrthodoxGrandfatherWillpowerFalling ApartMy GrandfatherWhatever It TakesEngravedPatriarchOrthodox Church Author:Marina Abramovic
“I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.” PeopleThinkingWarCountryFatherForceFeltSupportAirBrotherDutyGrewHonorGrew UpArmySoldierWarriorMy BrotherOfficersGrandfatherMy GrandfatherAir ForceKinship Author:Kris Kristofferson
“The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.” MenTryingMindHardFatherBlackJusticeStreetsBrotherGrewGrew UpToughMalesMy BrotherStayingConceptionDiverseGrandfatherMy GrandfatherBlack Males Author:Cornel West
“My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents want you to go to the next level of whatever, and I decided that I ought to be an architect. I can't tell you why. And I tried, and I had no aptitude for it.” KnowsWantI CanWholeNextParentLevelsBrotherOughtDadDecidedMy DadConstructionArchitectGrandfatherMy GrandfatherNext LevelAptitude Author:Bruce Molsky
“I think everyone's had a brother or a father or a cousin, uncle or grandfather who's had health issues because they've neglected things. I think that's almost been part of Australian culture, which is why I think Movember is really important. We need to change that outlook.” ThinkingNeedsImportantCultureFatherIssuesBrotherGrandfatherUnclesOutlookCousinNeglectedAustralianNeed A ChangeHealth IssuesAustralian Culture Author:James Magnussen
“Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.” HouseClassFourMiddleBrotherGrewMomGrew UpMy MomBeachMiddle ClassGrandmotherSurvivorHolocaustGrandfatherBedroomGrandparentMiamiRoommateGreat GrandmotherHolocaust SurvivorJewish FamilyMiami BeachBedroom House Author:Brett Ratner
“I understand the rural south because I spent a lot of time in it when I was a kid and my grandfather’s brothers were farmers and I spent time on the farm when I was a kid with them walking through the fields and working and hanging out.” KidsFieldsBrotherWalkingSouthHanging OutFarmsFarmersGrandfatherMy Grandfather Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“Saying that I am talking out of both sides of my mouth just proves my very point. Politicians would bypass real social issues by referring to my grandfather, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, or to my brother, currently chairman of the Islamic Centre in Geneva.” RealSocialSidesTalkingIssuesBrotherPoliticianProveMouthsMy BrotherIslamicBrotherhoodGrandfatherCentreBoth SidesSocial IssuesMy GrandfatherChairmanReferringBypassGenevaMuslim Brotherhood Author:Tariq Ramadan
“One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know under what terms - but, for a large section of the old slave plantation. He established himself - sisters and brothers, cousins, etc. on fifty- and sixty-acre plots.” KnowsFactsStoriesLiteratureTermBrotherSlaveOur FamilyFiftyEtcPlotGrandfatherSixtySectionsBrothers And SistersCousinAcresPlantations Author:Ella Baker
“At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.” MenSaidMotherNightCertainHouseMorningBrotherConcernedCookingMovedIllCooksHatedGrandmotherRidingGrandfatherPaleMy GrandmotherDoing NothingMy GrandfatherLet Her GoPurdah Author:Indira Gandhi
“This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our fathers and grandfathers died in this battle [in Normandy], yes. I understand that the Americans and the British and French celebrate one of the greatest and most important military victories in history. And I understand this. I don't see a reasonable place for the Germans. We watch everything on the television with compassion and sympathy.” ImportantProblemFatherNationsCompassionWatchesMilitaryTelevisionBrotherVictoryBattleDiedBritishCelebrateReasonableGrandfatherOur FatherDilemmaFather DiedNormandyFathers And GrandfathersGrandfather Died Author:Manfred Rommel
“[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.” LawLostBrotherDisasterFortunateCollapseTrappedGrandfatherSectionsCavesMy GrandfatherIn-lawsMiningBrother In Law Author:Dwight Yoakam
“I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster that killed his brother-in-law, my grandmother's brother. And he never talked about his own brother's death to me. My mother told me about that and told me about the impact on her family. And that's part of what you hear in the first verse of "Miner's Prayer."” FirstsKidsLawMotherPrayerParticularBrotherImpactFingersDisasterInjuryGrandmotherGrandfatherVersesMy GrandmotherMy GrandfatherIn-lawsMinersBrother In Law Author:Dwight Yoakam
“Prince Harry is a great guy, very competitive; he's been playing polo all his life. Riding is in his blood. His grandmother loves horses, his grandfather played polo, his father played polo, his brother plays polo, so it's in his blood. He likes to play hard, we joke about it and it's great.” GuyFatherBrotherJokesHorseGrandmotherGrandfatherGreat Guy Author:Nacho Figueras
“Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.” AbleBrotherMy BrotherGrandfatherMy Grandfather Author:John Malkovich