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
My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man,… — Arthur Morrison Copy Share Image
My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
I have an older brother who's an actor and a grandfather who was an actor. — Ben Lloyd-Hughes 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
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
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
Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes, or drive… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it… — Stephen Roche Copy Share Image
I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch… — John Searles Copy Share Image
“Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
[Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
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
I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to… — Isabel Allende 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