Quotes about My Grandfather

My Grandfather always said,'Rian,if you were a leader of a nation and your nation was in war with other nation,before you deliver a troops,you better know what you fighting for,okay? Votes: 4

History is as Old as My Grandfather Votes: 3

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather. Votes: 3

From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Rock is my child and my grandfather. Votes: 2

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. Votes: 2

My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler. Votes: 2

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. Votes: 2

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality. Votes: 2

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. Votes: 2

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather. Votes: 2

My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there. Votes: 2

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: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. Votes: 2

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack. 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 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. Votes: 2

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. Votes: 2

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the 70s. Votes: 2

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. Votes: 2

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. Votes: 2

My grandfather was a great chef. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. Votes: 0

My grandfather and I were very close. Votes: 0

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics. Votes: 0

My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather. Votes: 0

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin. Votes: 0

The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins. Votes: 0

My grandfather went through a lot in his life. Votes: 0

My grandfather's death was really hard to deal with. Votes: 0

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know. Votes: 0

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say. Votes: 0

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York. Votes: 0

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing. Votes: 0

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white. Votes: 0

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather. Votes: 0

In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.' Votes: 0

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder. Votes: 0

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out. Votes: 0

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth. Votes: 0

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg. Votes: 0

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell. Votes: 0

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. Votes: 0

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot. Votes: 0

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Votes: 0

Even today a lot of people know me because of my grandfather. Votes: 0

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. Votes: 0

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University. Votes: 0

Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!' Votes: 0

My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off. Votes: 0

My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right. Votes: 0

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic? Votes: 0

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally. Votes: 0

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream. Votes: 0

Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth. Votes: 0

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California. Votes: 0

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company. Votes: 0

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous. Votes: 0

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets. Votes: 0

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile. Votes: 0

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors. Votes: 0

Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father. Votes: 0

Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window. Votes: 0

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. Votes: 0

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die. Votes: 0

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. Votes: 0

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States. Votes: 0

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen. Votes: 0

My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband. Votes: 0

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs. Votes: 0

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet. Votes: 0

My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies. Votes: 0

My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death. Votes: 0

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. Votes: 0

My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better. Votes: 0

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour! Votes: 0

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s. Votes: 0

Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say. Votes: 0

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy. Votes: 0

My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever. Votes: 0

My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father. Votes: 0

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad. Votes: 0

My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning. Votes: 0

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do. Votes: 0

My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler. Votes: 0

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. Votes: 0

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack. Votes: 0

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right? Votes: 0

My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars. Votes: 0

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man. Votes: 0

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania. Votes: 0

My grandfather got me mad and I peed inside his orange juice and asked him if it's tangy. Votes: 0

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out. Votes: 0

My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values. Votes: 0

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. Votes: 0

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep. Votes: 0

When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. Votes: 0

I don't know who my grandfather was I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be Votes: 0

My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if your grandfather completely executes the pull my finger trick at the family reunion. Votes: 0

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers. Votes: 0

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. Votes: 0

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it 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

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. Votes: 0

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. Votes: 0

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang. Votes: 0

My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family. 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 grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him. Votes: 0

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. Votes: 0

Today is my grandfather's birthday." "How old is he?" "Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being. Votes: 0

There is no need to tell you that the 'Prince of Salina' is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio. Votes: 0

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son. Votes: 0

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy. Votes: 0

My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be. Votes: 0

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad. Votes: 0

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died. Votes: 0

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people. Votes: 0

I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers. Votes: 0

I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon. Votes: 0

After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school. Votes: 0

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it. Votes: 0

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers. Votes: 0

I'm raspy, and if I wasn't a smoker, I'd still be raspy. My pops has a raspy voice, and my grandfather. Votes: 0

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him. Votes: 0

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket. Votes: 0

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah. Votes: 0

Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration. Votes: 0

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced. Votes: 0

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much. Votes: 0

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. Votes: 0

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway. Votes: 0

In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed. Votes: 0

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it. Votes: 0

My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P. Votes: 0

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes. Votes: 0

My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open, because you never know what's going to come your way. Votes: 0

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her. 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

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy. Votes: 0

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate. Votes: 0

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve. Votes: 0

In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me. 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 was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry. 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 great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic. Votes: 0

My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies. Votes: 0

I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist. Votes: 0

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. 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

My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet! Votes: 0

I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian. Votes: 0

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. Votes: 0

My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people. Votes: 0

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art. Votes: 0

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My grandfather is hard of hearing. He needs to read lips. I don't mind him reading lips, but he uses one of those yellow highlighters. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. Votes: 0

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives. Votes: 0

As I mentioned, things were particularly hard during the Depression. My paternal grandfather was frequently out of work, and the family was evicted from their home. Votes: 0

I think back, when I saw The Great Gatsby , the film, my grandfather probably helped supply all the alcohol to all these Southampton parties, back then. Votes: 0

My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised. Votes: 0

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch. Votes: 0

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time. Votes: 0

[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some horrific things. Votes: 0

[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar. Votes: 0

Too young,too young,she chanted to herself. Wrong,of course. I was older than her grandfather but according to my driver's license,she was right. Votes: 0

My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.' Votes: 0

On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since. Votes: 0

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words. Votes: 0

It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States. Votes: 0

Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process. Votes: 0

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Votes: 0

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone. Votes: 0

My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory. Votes: 0

I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was alive. He'd probably disown me. Votes: 0

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom. Votes: 0

We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat. Votes: 0

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs. Votes: 0

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: 0

My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered. Votes: 0

As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting. Votes: 0

They strip-searched me! he burst outMe! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud! Votes: 0

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My grandfather always said, Don't watch your money, watch your health. So one day while I was watching my health, someone stole my money. It was my grandfather. Votes: 0

I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me." Votes: 0

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then. Votes: 0

My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears. Votes: 0

My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station. Votes: 0

I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my grandfather and my great-grandfather were lace manufacturers. Votes: 0

I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and great grandfather on my mother's side were geologists. Votes: 0

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today. 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

They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud! Votes: 0

I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway. 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

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. Votes: 0

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life. Votes: 0

When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive. Votes: 0

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played. Votes: 0

My grandfather, Harry, died when my dad was in his early 20s, so I never met him. Amazingly, he was 6ft tall. That gene definitely never filtered down to me! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My real name is Alfonso. My grandfather and dad are also Alfonso, so I was the third. So my mom just gave me the nickname Trey because I was the third. Votes: 0

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia. Votes: 0

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase. Votes: 0

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like? Votes: 0

When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a massive influence in my music. Growing up, he would play a lot of old-school records to me. A lot of jazz and swing music, actually, growing up. Votes: 0

My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me. Votes: 0

Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather. Votes: 0

Sometimes I wonder what my grandfather would think of what I do, he spent his whole life in the kebab business, was buried with all his equipment, probably turning in his grave. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into a twirl - now that is worth looking up to. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place. Votes: 0

Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it. Votes: 0

My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the other side of the world and everything that's going on. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility. Votes: 0

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy. Votes: 0

It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.' Votes: 0

My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn't have any hands or numbers. He says it's very accurate. I asked him what time it was. You can guess what he told me. Votes: 0

I was about 12 when I first encountered 'The Moonstone' - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon. Votes: 0

My father's family hails from Banaras. My grandfather taught mathematics at Banaras Hindu University. Banaras is also dedicated to Lord Shiva, home to one of the great jyotirlings, the Kashi Vishwanath temple. Votes: 0

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather. Votes: 0

I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name. Votes: 0

I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing. Votes: 0

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself. Votes: 0

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: 0

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. Votes: 0

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man. Votes: 0

I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted. Votes: 0

My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will. Votes: 0

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness. Votes: 0

During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba. Votes: 0

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. Votes: 0

My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

My family is very creative. My grandfather played the guitar in Cuba. My sisters, my mom and two aunts would do harmonies, so I would see them and think, 'I want the attention.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem." Votes: 0

Oddly enough, my mother was born in Southampton. I have roots in Southampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor. My grandfather, her father, Stefano Rullo, when he came from Naples, he went to Pennsylvania and worked coal mines. Votes: 0

My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking through a lens: for a split second nothing else exists outside the frame. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing grapes, but we were farming crops, creating something good out of the earth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him. Votes: 0

Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years. Votes: 0

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good. Votes: 0

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space. Votes: 0