My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands. Votes: 3
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much. Votes: 2
I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy! Votes: 2
My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through. Votes: 2
My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s. Votes: 0
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer. Votes: 0
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much. Votes: 0
My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34. Votes: 0
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it. Votes: 0
About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard - after that he went downhill very quickly. Votes: 0
My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine. Votes: 0
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him. Votes: 0
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car. Votes: 0
I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below. Votes: 0
I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure Island,' and whatnot. Votes: 0
I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very little memory of him. All my other grandparents were dead by the time I was of any age to remember anything.
I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.
Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.' Votes: 4 Nicholas Murray Butler
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. Votes: 6 Black Elk