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“My grandfather went through a lot in his life.”

“The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.”

Ifs Men Littles Father Average Grandfather Sailing Pirate Bragging Brag Average Man Great Grandfather

Author:Bernard Williams

“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

“In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.”

Memories Stones Take Me Grandfather Tigers My Grandfather

Book:The Tiger's Wife

Source: The Tiger's Wife

“My grandfather and I were very close.”

Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Tea Obreht

“I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.”

Men Kind Mets Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Illeana Douglas

“What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who would pull out a picture of his grandkids from his wallet. For us, the factory would never do. And turning away from our birthright - our grandfather in the white socks - is the thing that ruined us.”

Men White Generations Honest He Man Labor Factories Grandfather Ruined Nobility Sock Worthiness Birthright Our Generation Wallets Grandkids

Book:Detroit: An American Autopsy

Source: Detroit: An American Autopsy

“The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.”

Years Hands Left Wife Died Fingers My Wife Rings Wedding Grandfather Aunt My Grandfather Left Hand Brussels Wedding Ring

Author:David Miliband

“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 Beautiful Abandon Riding Grandfather Bike Seventies My Grandfather

Author:Stephen Roche

“I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.”

Able Shame Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Lloyd Banks

“Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate with difficulty-He wore the costume of our grandfathers. Was enormously rich but made no use of his wealth... He Cavendish lived latterly the life of a solitary, came to the Club dinner & to the Royal Society: but received nobody at his home. He was acute sagacious & profound & I think the most accomplished British Philosopher of his time.”

“Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.”

Men Way Water One Way Occupation Grandfather Estates Rowing Great Grandfather

Author:John Bunyan

“Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.... My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather would say we ought to go out and look at it once in a while so we don't lose our place in it.”

Looks Heaven Stars Loses Space Imagine Wonderful Ought Grandfather Marvelous My Grandfather Star Gazing Sirius Brightest Star

Book:All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

“There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.”

Future Flying Grandfather Predictions

Author:Wernher von Braun

“This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.”

People Wells Fine Ministers Grandfather Depressing My Grandfather Protestants Scots

Author:Alan Hovhaness

“It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.”

Said Girl Blind Chickens Now And Then Grain Grandfather Corn My Grandfather

Author:Lyle Lovett

“My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.”

Inspiration Behinds Hero Grandfather Great Grandfather

Author:Nik Wallenda

“I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.”

Firsts Body Father Language My Own Interesting Attitude Changed Son Dad Mets First Time Died Relative Our Relationship Grandfather My Grandfather Body Language Alterations

Author:Christian Bale

“We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.”

Forget Never Forget Grandfather Great Grandfather

Author:Roy Barnes

“I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'”

Bigs Remember Games Sports Grew Grew Up Traditional Communist Grandfather My Grandfather Irish Family

Author:Danielle Fotopoulos

“She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.”

Life Looks Break China Grandfather Dolls Departed

Book:Fever 1793

Source: Fever 1793

“My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.”

Used Mother Parent Doors Selling Factories Grandfather His Love My Grandfather Pasta Food Love Naples

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.”

Mother Grew Grew Up Kitchen Grandfather Aunt My Grandfather

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.”

Stars Rocks Stores Cooks Grandfather Chef Rock Star My Grandfather Gourmet Naples

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“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

“Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is within us - Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife”

Mind Stars Space Wife Sky Gratitude Billions Grandfather

Book:Turtle Island

Source: Turtle Island

“Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.”

Watches Disease My Family Painful Horrible Cures Grandfather My Grandfather Aggravation Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:David Hyde Pierce

“Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.”

Father Brother Raised Farms Professors Farmers Preacher Grandfather Agriculture My Grandfather Fundamentalist Unsuccessful

Author:Philip Warren Anderson

“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

“We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.”

Ifs Made Dies Accepting Five Minutes Car Easier Speed Made It Grandfather Crash Five Minutes My Grandfather

Author:Umberto Eco

“When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing.”

Children Hands School Used Civilization Our Children Used To Be Grandmother Grandfather Cradle Textbooks Cotton Forged Turner Your Grandmother

Author:Malcolm X

“It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold”

Values Father Belief Easy Difficult Views Prejudice Distance Criticize Fairness Grandfather Our Father Beliefs And Values

Book:Practical Ethics

Source: Practical Ethics

“Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.”

Earth Spirit Voice Grandfather Great Spirit Native American Dream Feeble Minds

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

“You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.”

Earth Six Rain Clouds Storm Riding Grandfather Rainy Day Drought Storm Clouds

Author:Black Elk

“My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.”

Father Wonderful Terrible Husband Grandfather Great Grandfather

Author:Pamela Anderson

“As we faithfully pay our tithes, the Lord will indeed open the windows of heaven and pour us out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. I want each of you to know, and especially my children and grandchildren, that I know, as my grandfather did, that if you always pay an honest tithing, the Lord will bless you. It will be the best investment you will ever make.”

“What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will, an inspirational family record. Much of what we now regard as scripture was not anything more or less than men writing of their own spiritual experiences for the benefit of their posterity. These scriptures are family records. Therefore, as a people we ought to write of our own lives and our own experiences to form a sacred record for our descendants. We must provide for them the same uplifting, faith-promoting strength that the ancient scriptures now give us.”

“My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a family that was very involved with the legal battles against apartheid—the great treason trials in the 1950s and early '60s, and later with the legal resources center that my mother founded. My father was involved with a number of very prominent cases that had political aspects to them, whether it was the inquest into the Sharpeville Massacre, the death of Steve Biko, or one of the trials of Nelson Mandela.”

“My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.”

Remember Young Stuff Parent Fields Youth Summer Moved Los Angeles Farms Cows Grandfather Pigs Grandparent Feeding Retired My Grandfather Railroads Hog Plowing

Author:Forest Whitaker

“I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?" Grandfather snorted. "Someone send to London for a special license! Now.”

Love Needs Hands Eye Age Christian House Doors Special Return Smell London Smoke His Eyes Grandfather Lit License Baths Dukes Carriages Beth

Author:Karen Hawkins

“Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife”

Mind Stars Space Wife Grandfather

Book:Turtle Island

Source: Turtle Island

“The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.”

Dies Offers Scripts Grandfather Uncles

Author:Max von Sydow

“I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.”

Married Chicago Grandfather Aunt My Grandfather Policemen

Author:Robin Tunney

“The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.”

Way Littles Said Running Felt Five Safe Gun Response Latter Weed Usual Grandfather Korea Loving Life Full Life Vets Connoisseur Great Grandfather Widowed

Book:Heads You Lose

Source: Heads You Lose

“Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, "I love you, sweetheart." She responded rather blandly: "I know." I asked, "How do you know that I love you?" Because! You're my grandfather!”

Knows Love Years Littles Said Five Love You Five Years Do You Know Hug Grandfather My Grandfather Sweetheart Five Year Olds Granddaughter I Love You Because

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“My grandfather was a small-town doctor and he used to say that I was missing a gene that told me that some giant risk I am about to take with my life is both stupid and dangerous. I'm grateful for this. Everything worthwhile that we create in life requires a leap of faith.”

Life Is Used Risk Dangerous Missing Stupid Doctors Towns Grateful Giants Leap Worthwhile Genes Grandfather Small Town My Grandfather Leap Of Faith

Author:Paul Budnitz

“To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.”

World Wells Lost Dying Lessons Blessing Definitions More Time Grandfather My Grandfather Finishing Urgency

Author:Will Graham

“It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor.”

Emotional Labor Fruit Grandfather Great Grandfather

Author:Will Graham

“I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.”

Used Language Cities Four Grew Grew Up Tongue Grandfather Surgeons Fluent Madras

Author:Aravind Adiga

“My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.”

Study Raised Ministers Priests Grandfather Uncles Daddy My Grandfather Masons Voodoo

Author:Wyclef Jean

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