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“Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.”

Thinking Years Mean Stills Years Ago Died Smell Grandfather My Grandfather Grandfather Died

Author:Julian Clary

“There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.”

Age Young Mother Song Heard Son Grew Grew Up Daughter Grandmother Grandfather Young Mother

Author:George Thorogood

“I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.”

Life Humor Funny Watches Comedy Proud Gold Pockets Grandfather My Grandfather Deathbed Pocket Watches

Author:Woody Allen

“Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man, two small barrels of beer, and a very large handbell. The men were purlmen, Grandfather Nat told me, selling hot beer in the cold mornings - to the men on the colliers, or on any other craft thereabout.”

Men Two Eye Certain Morning Fire He Man Cold Hot Caught Selling Boat Crafts Beer Pool Grandfather Barrels Cold Morning

Book:The Complete Works of Arthur Morrison (Including Martin Hewitt Detective Mysteries, Sketches of the Old London Slum & Tales of the Supernatural) - Illustrated: Adventures of Martin Hewitt, The Red Triangle, Tales of Mean Streets, The Dorrington Deed Box, The Green Eye of Goona, Divers Vanities, Green Ginger, Fiddle o' Dreams, The Shadows Around Us & more

Source: The Complete Works of Arthur Morrison (Including Martin Hewitt Detective Mysteries, Sketches of the Old London Slum & Tales of the Supernatural) - Illustrated: Adventures of Martin Hewitt, The Red Triangle, Tales of Mean Streets, The Dorrington Deed Box, The Green Eye of Goona, Divers Vanities, Green Ginger, Fiddle o' Dreams, The Shadows Around Us & more

“What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren.”

Ifs Children Rich Wonderful Share Contribution Grandmother Grandfather Grandparent Grandchildren Testimony Children And Grandchildren Grandchildren And Grandparents Grandparents From Grandchildren Grandmother And Grandchildren

Author:Vaughn J Featherstone

“Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them in ways that they did not indulge their own children. Grandfather knows that after the fun and games are over with his adorable grandchildren he can return to the quiet of his own home and peacefully reflect on this phenomenon of fatherhood.”

“Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.”

Wells Ideas Would Be Sleep Known Sun Ready East Instance Grandfather Stubborn Grandparent Well Known Going To Sleep Being Stubborn

Book:Guests

Source: Guests

“At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.”

“As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.”

People Humans Education Grandfather My Grandfather

Book:Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995

Source: Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995

“Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.”

Bigs Kids Parent Doors New York Sells Stores Producers Los Angeles Factories Grandfather My Grandfather Sibling Pasta

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.”

Knows Children Soul Body Three Hundred Doctors Medical Your Body Optimistic My Children Grandfather My Grandfather Medical Doctor

Author:John Templeton

“A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.”

Said Today Used Doctors Army Optimistic Ministers Treatment Grandfather My Grandfather Confederate

Author:John Templeton

“While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it was in the days when I first discovered it. I am convinced that long after I have stopped riding as a professional I will be riding my bicycle. I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.”

Want Firsts Long Sometimes Hard Beautiful Suffering Strong Remains Convinced Profession Abandon Riding Grandfather Bike Seventies My Grandfather Bicycle Cycling

Author:Stephen Roche

“A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?”

Looks Littles Eye Design Shapes Grandfather Lamps My Grandfather Frogs Porsche Why Change

Author:Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

“Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.”

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Book:Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

“As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of those who had gone before, were all up there, and I could visualise, I could hear voices and amongst those voices was the voice of my grandfather saying, 'It's alright now boy, you are finally in the council with the Australian Elders. Everything is now going to be alright.'”

Feels Whole Voice Leadership Race Boys Gone Grandfather Council Elders My Grandfather Australian Gallery Alright Leading Me Aboriginal

Author:Neville Bonner

“I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.”

Facts Kids Age Wanted Sleep Cities Paper Exposed Grandfather Cousin Toilets My Grandfather Tubes Specialists My Cousin Toilet Paper

Author:Michel Gondry

“My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.”

Dad My Dad Grandfather Cousin My Grandfather Lefties

Author:Parker Posey

“I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.”

Want Has Beens Facts Clear Happenings Understood Climate Climate Change Grandfather Grandchildren Grandpa My Grandchildren

Author:James Hansen

“Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends. . . . When Arjuna thus saw his kinsmen face to face in both lines of battle, he was overcome by grief and despair and thus he spoke with a sinking heart.”

Heart Faces Father Lines Grief Saws Wife Son Brother Masters Battle Despair Overcoming Army Spokes Companion Grandfather Uncles Face To Face Sinking Grandson Arjuna

Author:Juan Mascaro

“Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.”

Truth Father Improvement Versions Confusion Grandfather Tested Confusing Translations Our Father Search For Truth Scholarly Hidden Meaning Fathers And Grandfathers

Author:M. R. DeHaan

“The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.”

Way Firsts Country Seems Song My Own White Boys Fans Changed Woods Driven Eras Songwriting Grandfather New Orleans Biased Gateways Cabins Great Grandfather Country Boy Evergreens Log Cabins

Author:Chuck Berry

“My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there.”

Giving Littles Funny Left Advice One Day Humorous Give Me Likes Comedian Grandfather My Grandfather Forgetful Funny Comedian

Author:Ron Richards

“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

“I want to appreciate you now, and avoid the rush.”

Want Appreciate Grandfather Appreciate You

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.”

Men Given Heaven Praise Grandfather

Author:Izaak Walton

“I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.”

Thinking Grew Grew Up Vote Unions Checks Cards Grandfather Coal My Grandfather Miners Coal Miners

Author:Jim Renacci

“This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.”

“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 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

“As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.”

Oil California Grandfather Reserves Great Grandfather Flukes

Author:Armie Hammer

“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

“Rock is my child and my grandfather.”

Children Rocks My Children Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Chuck Berry

“He was very supportive of me, ... He saw every single play I did in New York. Ill never forget looking out into the audience and watching my brother, who was 40 years younger than my grandfather, sleeping in his chair during some of my early plays. My grandfather Alex never fell asleep.”

Years Play Sleep Forget Audience Saws New York Brother Ill My Brother Chairs Never Forget Grandfather Supportive My Grandfather Alex Sleeping In

Author:Liev Schreiber

“One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!”

Men Want Has Beens Might Grandmother One Man Grandfather Might Have Been One Woman Your Grandmother

Author:Groucho Marx

“Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.”

Names Pay Ocean Missions Exploration Grandfather My Grandfather Homage Lead In Ocean Exploration

Author:Fabien Cousteau

“I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. He was a minister for 15 years…I come from a big family not in terms of money, but reputation and grew up in a protective mountain environment…My father slapped me for the first time at 15 and I told him, ‘If you slap me I will slap you back’. I felt raising your hand on anybody is inappropriate and always had a high regard for my self. My dad asked me to leave the house and I did so without a single penny in my pocket.”

“My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.”

Said Would Be Graves Spots Grandfather My Grandfather Shiver

Author:Richard Bowes

“My grandfather always told me that it is no good lying on a hospital bed saying, 'I had the right of way', ... That's one of the reasons I was so pleased that the boys could do the IAM test as well.”

Way Wells Reason Lying Boys Bed Tests Hospitals Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Nigel Mansell

“I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.”

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Author:Whitley Strieber

“Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.”

People Remember Used Names Tree Streets Broads Grandfather Old Trees Richmond

Book:John Brown's Body

Source: John Brown's Body

“I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico. We actually hung out with them last summer, and it was awesome. But I wish my grandfather had taught my dad Spanish when he was younger so he could've taught me when I was younger, and sometimes he does, too. It's a shame.”

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Author:Aubrey Plaza

“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

“I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.”

World Player Birth Computer Piano Nightmare Ancestor Grandfather Refuge Binary Yes Or No Playing Piano Piano Music Piano Playing Player Piano

Author:William Gaddis

“My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.”

Men Eye Earth Sun Fire Tree Sky Hair Bird Caught Giants His Eyes Laughed Grandfather Grandparent Patches My Grandfather Parents And Grandparents Grandparents Day

Author:Eth Clifford

“I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.”

Want Able Dies Father Husband Hopefully Someday Grandfather Exhausted Being A Father

Author:Bryan Cranston

“I do not always ask, in my prayers and discussions, for only those things I would like to see happen, because no man can claim to know what is best for mankind. Wakan Tanka and Grandfather alone know what is best, and this is why, even though I am worried, my attitude is not overcome with fear of the future. I submit always to Wakan Tanka's will. This is not easy, and most people find it impossible, but I have seen the power of Prayer and I have seen God's desires fulfilled. So I pray always that God will give me wisdom to accept his way of doing things.”

“Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'd abused my grandmother and my mother. He did things like shave my grandmother's head and lock her in a closet. With my mother's help, my grandmother finally left him.”

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Author:Deborah Pryce

“One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.”

People Facts Age Courses Gone Changed Late Decided Doctors Ministers Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Colin Firth

“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