My grandfather was a prominent executive at Chevron (oil), and of course my father is a fairly radical and progressive environmentalist. But… — James Redford Copy Share Image
For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have… — Keith Coogan Copy Share Image
There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Without question, my grandfather's example of public service throughout his life inspired Dad later to run for office himself. Wherever he went,… — Dorothy Bush Koch Copy Share Image
Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
“Sometimes my grandfather was awake, and would sit with me while I looked up at the stars, needing to see something fixed… — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
People at present think that five sons are not too many and each son has five sons also, and before the death… — Han Fei Copy Share Image
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We… — Bill Moseley Copy Share Image
My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in… — Ed Droste Copy Share Image
My dad grew up really poor in Mississippi. I paid attention to that because I thought that's a healthier thing to pay… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
He had a name that had a woman's name in it. I'd never met my grandfather. I wouldn't say that he was… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
My mother's last name, maiden name is Hogue. She is Cherokee and African. My grandfather, Dave Hogue, owned 300 acres of land… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him,… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," my grandfather put in, "even if you can't be what you want, making the most of what you can be isn't… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The Mississippi of 1920 was an exceptionally dangerous place for Black people. But my grandfather deeply believed in helping create opportunities to… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
My grandfather was doing business with a Japanese man. In exchange of good relationship the man taught my uncles the art of… — Royce Gracie Copy Share Image
I am lucky because I can - and I like to - mix the beautiful Caraceni jackets I inherited from my grandfather… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
This generation of little children is the 7th Generation. Not just Indian children but white, black, yellow and red. Our grandfathers said… — Clyde Bellecourt Copy Share Image
Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
The family on my mom's side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfather is in infomercials. He's a pitchman,… — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
One day you will realize what u have done and that putting your hands on me was wrong . And how horrible… — Reanna Lisi Copy Share Image
My grandfather Prescott passed down the idea that you would only run for office after you had built a financial base -… — Dorothy Bush Koch 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
[Bill] Clinton's voice, his manner of speaking and his terminology, "Back in those days... Yeah, back those days... You know, we didn't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a wealthy and respected merchant in Montclair, New Jersey, where I was born. But his estate was wiped out… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a… — Brett Dalton 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