Yes, I'm half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian... and I couldn't understand a word he said. — Paulo Costanzo Copy Share Image
“My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch.” — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated. — Robert Anton Wilson 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 and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books. — Sudha Murty 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 mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime.… — Armand Deutsch Copy Share Image
I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense… — Ian Dunbar Copy Share Image
As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
I always picture my grandkids looking at their grandfather and saying, 'My grandfather was the last or the first to do something.'… — Deontay Wilder Copy Share Image
I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
“From the day I was born, more than any other of my siblings or relatives, the bond that developed between my maternal… — VD Copy Share Image
“Peter, naomba nitubu kosa. Mimi si mtoto wa Mwanasheria Mkuu wa Serikali. Ni mtoto wa Rais wa Meksiko. Lisa ni mtoto wa… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
There are many important elements to being a parent. A lot of people don't have fathers but they might have someone in… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I need to talk to you. I had a weird dream." "Let me guess. You got tied up by lady ninjas. With… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“It [the trip] captured five very long hours. If you want to know why, it is because Grandfather is Grandfather first and… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
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
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
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 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
Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy… — Peggy Johnson Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
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
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“His grandfather had told him many times that the greatest enemies of a fighting man were death and women.” — Glyn Iliffe Copy Share Image
Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult. — Craig T. Nelson Copy Share Image
Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria. — O. T. Fagbenle Copy Share Image