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 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
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
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] 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
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
I confess that as a young boy, Sunday was not my favorite day. Grandfather shut down the action. We didn't have any… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
No matter what ailed you, a small glass of schnapps would take care of it at once. This particular remedy was so… — Molly Picon Copy Share Image
My father and grandfather were stockbrokers, and they would actually take stock certificates from a vault, give it to a runner, and… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The Alzheimer's Association is what I am passionate about. My grandfather had it. My mom has it. It's a horrible disease, and… — Graham Shiels Copy Share Image
You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician.… — Sam Rivers Copy Share Image
As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing… — Nelly Copy Share Image
“One day, a young boy went up to his grandfather, who was an old Cherokee chief. ‘Edudi?’ the boy asked. ‘Why are… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“My grandfather was crying. The kind of quiet that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that only I noticed.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson,… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers… — Manfred Rommel 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
“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
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
“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
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
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 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
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
“Your grandfather always said every man has his demons. The successful man is he who learns to control his.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“my grandfather’s face was a folded fist and all our faces were collected like coins inside it.” — NoViolet Bulawayo 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
Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of… — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image