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“That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so?”

Thinking Way Believe I Can Sometimes Reason Might Eye Jobs I Believe Fear Understanding Half Crime Findings Guilty Evening Kitchen Afternoon Grandfather Her Eyes My Grandfather Finding Peace

Author:Kaye Gibbons

“In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.”

Government Cities New York Approach Vote Unions Active Convince New York City Grandfather My Grandfather Johnson Limited Government Firefighter

Author:Joe Lhota

“I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.”

Born Cities New York Son Drivers Grandfather Cop Dna Taxi Firefighter Bronx

Author:Joe Lhota

“My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.”

Home Felt Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.”

Important Book Home Kids Faces Mother Reading Father Realizing Roles Failing Brother Mom Dad Models Newspapers Grandmother Role Models Grandfather Book Reading Mom And Dad

Author:James Patterson

“My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.”

Lasts Mother Father Forever Blood Brother My Brother Grandfather My Grandfather Ever After

Author:Alice Hoffman

“I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.”

I Can Able Father Shoes Shoulders Hopefully Grandfather

Author:Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

“Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.”

Ifs Wells Known Principles Grandfather Grandparent

Book:The Business of Life

Source: The Business of Life

“If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror... I want to be able to look at my father in 10 years' time and say, 'I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of me.'”

Ifs Knows Want Should Years Looks Able Father Products Proud Decided Mirrors Sells Sat Grandfather Be Proud Revealing My Grandfather Proud Of You Proud Of Me Leeches

Author:James Packer

“[Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV set, a couple of racks of Italian suits, some Jets tickets, a grandfather clock and three paper sacks filled with small, unmarked bills.”

Three Politics Watches Tvs Couple Office Paper Clothes Bills Filled Suits Clock Italian Grandfather Tickets Senators Jewelry Jet Racks Public Office Assorted Rolex

Author:Ann Coulter

“I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.”

Wanted House Easy Church Grew Hero Grew Up Built Blue Locals Genes Grandfather Personal Life Mechanic My Grandfather Collars Plumber Spades Blue Collar Electrician

Author:Mike Rowe

“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

“I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.”

People World Firsts Humans War Stories Remember Forget Worst War Of The Worlds Grandfather Human History My Grandfather Massacres First World War Carnage

Author:Antonio Tabucchi

“Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.”

Knows Way House White Rivers Horse Winter Woods Snow Grandfather November Poems Sleighs

Author:Lydia M. Child

“You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.”

Ifs Glad Patriotic Grandfather Laborers

Book:Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

“I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.”

Fingers Rings Grades Grandfather Hung My Grandfather Sandwiches Garlic Cafeteria Sardines

Author:Rachael Ray

“I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.”

Doe Spirit Source Personality Travel Rivers Grandfather Traveler Distinctive Missouri

Author:William Least Heat-Moon

“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

“A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story.”

Way Done Helping Stories Shows Used Hours Teacher Masters Rose Related Hops Spokes Grandfather My Grandfather Lame Swept Away

Author:Martin Buber

“My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.”

People Wealth Saws Fool Stupidity Grandfather Ruined My Grandfather Inherited Wealth

Author:Dan Quayle

“My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.”

Dad My Dad Lawyer Grandfather Mum Uncles Cousin My Grandfather

Author:Benicio Del Toro

“I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.”

Thinking Kids Mother Talent Politician Actresses London Grandfather My Grandfather Inbreds

Author:Angela Lansbury

“My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.”

Knows Enough Kids Mother Father Teacher Profession Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather

Author:Warren Beatty

“My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?”

Knows Actors Dad My Dad Grandfather Great Grandfather

Author:David Hyde Pierce

“My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.”

Trying Long Heard Draws Islands Grandfather Cop My Grandfather Long Island

Author:Yancy Butler

“My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.”

Shows Mother Sides Productions Theatre Managers Grandfather Broadway My Grandfather Vegas General Manager

Author:Yancy Butler

“I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.”

Hours Simple Emotional Research Folks Grandfather My Grandfather Folk Music Appalachia Fiddlers

Author:Renee Fleming

“I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.”

Matter Hard Helping Age Used Animal Hard Work Baby No Matter What Driving Farms Dedicated Cows Grandfather Pigs Crops My Grandfather Tractors

Author:Tyson Chandler

“My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.”

Firsts Has Beens Tree Built Grandfather Dirt My Grandfather Baskets Peaches

Author:Tyson Chandler

“I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.”

Guy Levels Highest My Family Friendly Grandfather Magician My Grandfather

Author:Ricky Jay

“My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.”

Mother Generations New York Mets Grandmother Immigrants Ireland Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather Moscow Early 20s Odessa

Author:Alexis Denisof

“I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!”

Ifs I Can Kids Four Seven Grandfather Grandkids Great Grandfather Great Grandkids

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“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

“We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.”

Poor Grew Grew Up California Grandfather My Grandfather Riverside

Author:Greta Gerwig

“Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.”

Age Mother Lost Support Farms Grandfather My Grandfather Assistants Maids

Author:Peter Agre

“My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.”

Beautiful My Family Singers Grandmother Grandfather Grandparent My Grandmother My Grandfather Quartets Tenors Sopranos Barbershop

Author:Clare Bowen

“Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.”

Parent Grandmother Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Creed Bratton

“My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.”

Christian Healing Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Richard Paul Evans

“My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.”

Three Born Generations My Family India Grandfather My Grandfather Three Generations

Author:Rupert Everett

“The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.”

Facts Stories Bigs America Names Wish Behinds Truth Is Patriotic Grandfather Librarian My Grandfather

Author:America Ferrera

“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 grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.”

“My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life.”

Men Mets Ministers Grandfather Unbelievable My Grandfather Baptists Most Amazing Amazing Life Amazing Man

Author:Josh Henderson

“My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.”

Party New York Communist Grandfather Julius Communist Party Great Grandfather

Author:Armie Hammer

“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 family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.”

Art Wanted My Own Path Dad My Family Let Me My Dad Appreciation Singers Opera Grandfather Supportive My Grandfather Opera Singers

Author:Tony Hale

“Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.”

World Car Fairs Paris Electric Grandfather My Grandfather Electric Car

Author:Al Jardine

“My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.”

Knows Values Father Saws Taught Tools Rulers Grandfather Hammers Files Precision Carpenter Chisels Great Grandfather Guesswork

Book:Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries

Source: Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries

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