We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
My grandfather, my dad's dad, he was a lawyer. He was a state legislator. He was the publisher of Oregon's second largest… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“Odysseus had twenty years to shed his battle skin. My grandfather left the battlefield in France and rode home in a ship… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“was a trust fund from his grandfather, but Robyn hadn’t known that. And he hadn’t known or realized his money had been… — Christie Craig Copy Share Image
I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends.… — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
My grandfather was extremely dark and from Puerto Rico, but his brother had blond hair and blue eyes. There are so many… — La La Anthony Copy Share Image
When I started with Ramesh Sippy's 'Buniyaad' in 1985, I was in my mid-20s and within a year, I was elevated from… — Alok Nath Copy Share Image
I remember my grandmother, Maria Roslyn, very well because she used to visit us in Wales when I was growing up. She… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
“Mr. Carter spoke, “I think your grandfather will be glad to help. I can go to Greenfield and tell him the whole… — Gertrude Chandler Warner Copy Share Image
My mum left her job to allow me to pursue my dreams, coming along with me. But the person who really inspired… — Fred Copy Share Image
You didn't know I could do that, did you?" he asked, conversationally. "I did not, Your Majesty," Teleus gasped. "My grandfather killed… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. He… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I'm quite sure that, had Twitter been of an age when my grandfather was prime minister, I'm sure they would have used… — Nicholas Soames Copy Share Image
My grandfather had Alzheimer's. He would eat everything and anything that was around; then he wouldn't remember that he ate it and… — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went… — Brandi Chastain Copy Share Image
I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally. — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
“... I want most of all for you to forgive Grandfather. I want you to forgive Grandfather so I can grow up… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well. — Neil Nitin Mukesh Copy Share Image
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script. — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
My grandfather, Harry, died when my dad was in his early 20s, so I never met him. Amazingly, he was 6ft tall.… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed. — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
