You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is so awkward that how our ancestors wasted their whole life and never thought about education or making difference for the… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning. — Harley Viera-Newton Copy Share Image
Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet, knight, or… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was… — Vikram Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
My grandfather is my biggest fashion critic. He takes a keen interest in the millennial fashion, most of which he disapproves of,… — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and… — Kangna Ranaut Copy Share Image
“SOCIAL SERVICE: My grandfather used to say, 'If you wish to help, what your right hand does, your left should not know!'… — Adiela Akoo Copy Share Image
When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather… — Wendell Berry 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
I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Donald was to my grandfather what the border wall has been for Donald: a vanity project funded at the expense of more… — Mary L. Trump 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
If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the… — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying… — Gary Sheffield Copy Share Image
My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the… — Charlie LeDuff Copy Share Image
My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing… — Scott Pruett Copy Share Image
