The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it. — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband. — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end.… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly… — Georgina Chapman 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
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 mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. He… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather! — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws,… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The… — Anson Mount Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by… — Tim Murphy Copy Share Image
The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new… — Anne Sexton 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
