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“I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.”

World Ancient Around The World Grandfather Coins My Grandfather Collecting Collectors

Author:Kellan Lutz

“To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.”

Knows Years Sometimes Young Dies Grows Loses Aging Ignorant Grandfather Glimpse Ponds Midsummer

Book:The Selected Poems of Donald Hall

Source: The Selected Poems of Donald Hall

“I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.”

People House Parent Rooms Grandfather Uncles Cousin Aunt My Grandfather My Cousin

Author:Dichen Lachman

“I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.”

Stories Age Used Father Watches Four Down And Grandfather My Grandfather Daydreaming Watch Movie

Author:Aneurin Barnard

“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.”

Way States Facts Mother Sides United United States Circumstances Offers Chiefs African American Indian Native Grandfather Native American Indian Chief

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.”

Pilots Airplane Engineers Grandfather My Grandfather Yaks

Book:The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's

Source: The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's

“A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.”

Father Poverty Proud Comfort Historical Crush Grandfather Sensibility Be Proud Great Grandfather

Book:Spillville: A Collaboration

Source: Spillville: A Collaboration

“My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.”

Wonderful Food Tables Cooking Culinary Funeral Grandfather Potatoes My Grandfather Salad Buffets Deceased Replica Potato Salad

Author:Woody Allen

“The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.”

“There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.”

“Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.”

Poetry Trade Grandfather Desks Layoff

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.”

“My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.”

Mother Father Stuff Piano Grandfather Violin Fathers And Grandfathers

Author:Pete Seeger

“A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.”

Writing Country Father Natural Grew Battle Grew Up Administration My Time Grandfather Senators My Grandfather Family History Perfectly Natural

Author:Gore Vidal

“No matter what ailed you, a small glass of schnapps would take care of it at once. This particular remedy was so good my grandfather would frequently take the cure even before there was anything wrong with him.”

Matter Care Particular No Matter What Drinking Glasses Take Care Cures Remedy Grandfather My Grandfather

Book:So Laugh A Little

Source: So Laugh A Little

“My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.”

Faces Laughing Grandfather My Grandfather Chevy

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.”

Real Bigs Guy Stars Effects Hero Tough Workers Nonsense Leap Factories Ireland Grandfather My Grandfather Real Heroes No Nonsense Factory Workers

Author:Brian Dennehy

“That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: Use your eyes! Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.”

Firsts Littles Use Eye Able Mother Bits Voice Challenges Acting Taught Little Bit Aspect My Family Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Keith Coogan

“For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mothers maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.”

Years Mother Next Names Gone Reverence Grandfather Next Year My Grandfather Maidens Keith Maiden Names Headshots

Author:Keith Coogan

“My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.”

World War Stories Force Seeing Air Grew Grew Up Hearing Chinese War Of The Worlds World War Ii Pilots World War I Grandfather Uniforms My Grandfather Air Force

Author:Eric Liu

“I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.”

Father Teacher Intellectual Doctors Germany Immigrants Preacher Grandfather Businessman Small Business My Grandfather Abolitionist

Author:Pete Seeger

“In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how my grandfather used to remember me. Around 1981, I became a pro-capitalist person and it stuck.”

Persons Said Kids Remember Used Red Unions Stuck Soviet Capitalist Grandfather Soviet Union My Grandfather Remember Me

Author:Lubos Motl

“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.”

People Thinking War Country Father Force Felt Support Air Brother Duty Grew Honor Grew Up Army Soldier Warrior My Brother Officers Grandfather My Grandfather Air Force Kinship

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“My grandfather always told me, You know youre American first, but youre a Greek-American, which makes you a better American. It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.”

Knows World Should Firsts Different Sound Special Sweet Embrace Greek Grandfather My Grandfather Old World Very Sweet

Author:Melina Kanakaredes

“You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.”

Trying Said Stills Ends Bits Sides Grandfather My Grandfather

Book:Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

“My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.”

Grew Grew Up Producers Grandfather My Grandfather Movie Sets

Author:Cassandra Clare

“A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.”

Years Girl Walks Seven Grandfather Seven Years

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.”

Men Self Taught Extraordinary Library Grandfather Self Taught Great Grandfather

Author:Alan Garner

“I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.”

Said Father Known Grandmother Denied Mexico Grandfather Fathers And Grandfathers

Author:Susana Martinez

“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.”

Men Trying Mind Hard Father Black Justice Streets Brother Grew Grew Up Tough Males My Brother Staying Conception Diverse Grandfather My Grandfather Black Males

Author:Cornel West

“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.”

“I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.”

Way Felt Born Grew Grew Up My Family Towns South Spots Ran Rooted Grandfather My Grandfather Georgia Mayors Cotton Mills

Author:Frances Mayes

“In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.”

Father Cases Grandfather Daddy Papa

Author:Clyde Edgerton

“Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.”

Long Mother Arms Kings Horse Grandfather Syria Pointing My Grandfather Once Upon A Time Downtown Posh

Author:Mona Simpson

“The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.”

Writing Looks Stills Emotional Research Boxes Ships Manifest Grandfather Grandparent Behalf Paperwork Great Grandfather

Author:Adriana Trigiani

“When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'”

Firsts Said States Running Father Son Congress Ran Grandfather My Grandfather Assembly Headlines

Author:Thomas Kean, Jr.

“Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet, knight, or gentleman, shot himself, has certain planks in the floor from which the blood will not be taken out. You may scrape and scrape, as the present owner has done, or plane and plane, as his father did, or scrub and scrub, as his grandfather did, or burn and burn with strong acids, as his great-grandfather did, but, there the blood will still be - no redder and no paler - no more and no less - always just the same.”

May Stills Done Certain Father Strong Rooms Lord Taken Blood Shots Planes Gentleman Owners Halls Grandfather Knights Acid Spooky Great Grandfather

Book:Some Christmas Stories

Source: Some Christmas Stories

“Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.”

Mind Firsts Character Lasts Interesting Butterfly Grandfather Interesting Characters

Book:Bleak House

Source: Bleak House

“I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Mother Language Natural Careers Teach Areas Chosen Performers Fascinated Genes Grandfather Inheritance Linguistics

Author:George Carlin

“My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.”

Knows Father Names Chance Nice Generations Son My Son Grandfather Icons One Chance

Author:Jennifer Grant

“Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.”

Culture Poor United Common Special Members Property Awful Grandfather Drs Aunt Johnson Dr Johnson United Family

Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.”

Moving Born Five Miles Village Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:David Attenborough

“Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.”

“The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died.”

Children Stories Left Genius Died Eight Piano Twelve Grandfather Estates Great Grandfather

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on Monday morning, because the Sabbath was a day of rest--a practice that made my paternal grandfather, the village atheist, as mad as fire. Nevertheless, he willed five quid to the minister, just to be on the safe side.”

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

“I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.”

Born Community Generations Promise Ideology Soccer Grandfather Free Speech I Promise Fetish Great Grandfather Learning English

Author:Ann Coulter

“In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!”

World Long Has Beens Book Stories Today Felt Modern Angry Majority West Population China East Brilliant Excellent Grandfather Reverse Turkeys New Books Modern History

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes.”

Fall Messages Red Graves Hills Brown Call Me Genes Electric Grandfather My Grandfather Mississippi

Book:Poems from prison

Source: Poems from prison

“One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.”

World Long Stills Reason Jobs Guy Roles Wise Like You Type Long Time Models Adults Pressure Bills Odd Role Models Grandfather Long Time Ago Your Best Friend

Author:Kevin Smith

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