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“Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.”

Kind Born Band Ten Creating Festivals Things I Love Billboards Granddaddy

Author:Michael Franti

“My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.”

Thinking Years Made School Jobs Week Died Cooking Grandmother My Grandmother School Lunch Granddaddy

Author:Willie Nelson

“I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.”

Stage Granddaddy

Author:Theodore Bikel

“When I did Ben 10, I really didn't know anything about Ben 10. But when I went back to visit my son Pierre and told him what I'd just done, he said "You did a Ben 10?!?" and then he started yelling out to my grandson, "Luca, Luca, come here, Granddaddy did a Ben 10 show." You suddenly discover you're gratte-cul with a five-year-old, and that's pretty cool."”

Knows Years Said Done Shows Five Son Five Years Over You My Son Yelling Five Year Olds Grandson Granddaddy

Author:David McCallum

“Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.”

Used Church Legs Handle Snakes Drank Granny Granddaddy

Author:Wesley Strick

“Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.”

Ifs Home Fun Novel Adventure Vampire Epic Hammers Gothic Back Home Kim Newman Granddaddy Stoker

Author:Christopher Fowler

“I'm the granddaddy of this side. I'm the oldest person playing in the team, so I've got a mentoring role. I've been around the tracks and achieved a few things. I try to make sure that the younger players reach their full potential, and stay on the right track.”

Trying Persons Sides Roles Player Team Track Mentoring Full Potential Right Track Granddaddy

Author:Filo Tiatia

“Granddaddy can pick up a phone and call anyone in the world and they will take his call. But he doesn't know it.”

Knows World Leadership Picks Phones Granddaddy

Author:Johnny Hunt

“We allow it to be dumped into this community asset, which is our one and only atmosphere. So that has to change, and there's really only one entity that can do that. So we have proposed a cap-and-trade system to stop that unlimited pollution, to use the forces of the market to efficiently allocate scarce permits to allow CO2 into the atmosphere. That's just one of 500 things we need to do, but it's probably the granddaddy of them all.”

Needs Use Force Can Do Community Trade Atmosphere Just One Assets Permit Pollution Entity Unlimited Caps Scarce Dumped Co2 Granddaddy

Author:Jay Inslee

“Me personally, I come from very, very humble beginnings - little, small town in Alabama, you know, staying at my granddaddy house. We really didn't have nothing.”

Knows Littles House Towns Humble Staying Small Town Alabama Humble Beginnings Granddaddy

Author:Gucci Mane

“My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.”

Kings And Love Senior Daddy Luther Hope And Love Faith Hope Faith Hope And Love Granddaddy

Author:Alveda King

“So that makes him, like, your fang granddaddy.”

Fangs Granddaddy

Book:One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

Source: One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

“I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.”

Ifs Men Helping Hands Today Used Jail Gloves Sausage Granddaddy

Author:Jimmy Dean

“Were in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.”

Stills Deals Technology Television Periods Prove Transition New Technology Granddaddy

Author:Jeff Zucker

“My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.”

Years Remember Song Sides Red Buying My Sister Valentine Valentine's Day Momma My Momma Carnations Granddaddy

Author:Josh Turner

“[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.”

History Survived Present Day Algorithms Granddaddy

Book:Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms

Source: Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms