My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the…

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.

— John Gokongwei

“Your grandfather lived at a time when it was difficult to believe in God and stay alive at the same time. He sought to…

— E.Y. Laster

I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.

— Annette Bening

The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on…

— Chuck Berry

“It is so awkward that how our ancestors wasted their whole life and never thought about education or making difference for the future generations.…

— M.F. Moonzajer

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had…

— Michel Gondry

My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New…

— Abel Ferrara

My grandfather lived in New England all his life and was a Vermonter.

— Orson Bean

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody…

— Gertrude B. Elion

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

— Gertrude B. Elion

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…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Norm MacDonald

This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our…

— Manfred Rommel

My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to…

— Clint Eastwood