To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo." — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I know that my great-grandfather - George Rich - was born in Cape Town in 1866 and it set my journey off… — Shirley Ballas Copy Share Image
When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. — Louis Sachar 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
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
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
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
It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to… — Will Graham 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
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
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
My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father… — Aliko Dangote Copy Share Image
The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
My maternal great-grandfather Don Juan del Gallego was a Spanish adventurer from Asturias, Spain. He sailed on a galleon ship to the… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
My great grandfather from my father's side, Sir Akbar Hydari, was the prime minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was instrumental… — Aditi Rao Hydari Copy Share Image
I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my… — Stacey Bendet 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
My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather was the last ruler of the Choctaw Nation, and from birth, I was taught that my role was to restore… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Now that I know about my great-great-grandfather, I feel that John Reid and I would have got on well together. — Anne Reid Copy Share Image
“It all begins with your great-grandfather, Sir Hugo Baskerville, who was a right bastard, and no denying.” — G.S. Denning Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather was a miner who went off and became an entertainer for a few years to get out of the mines.… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead… — Marcus Aurelius 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
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
My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
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
My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
In 1881, my dad's grandparents, who were Norwegian farmers, immigrated to the United States - the same year my great grandfather from… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America… — Kelli O'Hara 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
My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with… — Hamza Yusuf 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
“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
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
