My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Oh, my landy-love.” Kaine used her grandfather’s substitute cussword.” — Jaime Jo Wright Copy Share Image
As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California. — Armie Hammer Copy Share Image
My grandfather's from Pinson, Alabama, all the Truckses came from there. — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him. — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
“A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania. — Irwin Thomas Copy Share Image
They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road,… — Julia Golding Copy Share Image
Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family. — Tagg Romney Copy Share Image
My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for… — Ashton Holmes Copy Share Image
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“My mother describes me as 'a real hero . . . just like your grandfather'. But I do not know what to… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“Of my grandfather's eighty-six years on the planet, he had lived two of them in Alaska...But those two years had expanded, sponge-like,… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was… — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
“From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I have lived an eloquent sufficiency, any more would have been a superfluous redundancy." My grandfather, Howard Creelman, Sr. always said this… — Curt Creelman Copy Share Image
If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“My grandfather created a fortune that allowed him to live in luxury. He also went on to build the first industrial building… — Celso Cukierkorn Copy Share Image
All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years?… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
“My grandfather so throughly considered cooking to be "women's work" that he wouldn't even enter the kitchen to get his own glass… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“There was no water at my grandfather’s when I was a kid and would go for it with two zinc buckets. Down… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a Tuskegee Airman. He flew with the 100th Fighter Squadron. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies. — Enrique Iglesias Copy Share Image
“My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met” — Raji Singh Copy Share Image
Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg. — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
