If the Kennedys had been barred from entering America after fleeing Ireland during the famine, my grandfather never would have been president. — Jack Schlossberg Copy Share Image
One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather? — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a… — Kevin Johnson Copy Share Image
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for… — Yancy Butler Copy Share Image
I remember, as a kid, my grandfather would grab my temples and say, 'You've got to focus, Jake. You've got to focus.' — Jake Peavy Copy Share Image
My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws,… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I've been celebrating the Day of the Dead since I was 6 years old because my grandfather passed away back then. The… — Anthony Gonzalez Copy Share Image
When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
At home - where my grandmother certainly had to deal with Donald more than my grandfather did because he was at work… — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
That is like in my parents' generation, Walter Cronkite. If you were gonna go into broadcasting, if you weren't gonna be Walter… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It was not the right-wing Russians or the gun-toting settlers who carried out the Nakba. The Nakba is the legacy of Zionism's… — Max Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Now he wondered what use it would be. For Kaspar’s death would not bring back his father, Elk’s Call at Dawn, or… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George.… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like,… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
“You've got it pretty damned easy, kiddo. If ever you should find yourself complaining about the task of looking up the calories… — Martin Cizmar Copy Share Image
“ Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities—His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard - after that he went downhill very… — Milton Jones Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers. — Luke Goss Copy Share Image
My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France. — Lisa Papademetriou Copy Share Image
With his gigantic personality, my grandfather burst onto the great political panorama of that era made up only of little men with… — Alessandra Mussolini Copy Share Image
Our land is everything to us… I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[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,… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality. — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P. — T.I Copy Share Image
My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“if I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. There's no doubt of it. I just don't… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
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… — Julian Clary Copy Share Image
I'm raspy, and if I wasn't a smoker, I'd still be raspy. My pops has a raspy voice, and my grandfather. — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
“It was as Ginger's grandfather had said. It did not matter how far you go, you always take yourself with you.” — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
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