My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand… — Erik Estrada Copy Share Image
My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking… — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran… — Thomas Kean, Jr Copy Share Image
Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this… — Lubos Motl Copy Share Image
When I sat there in 1971 and watched my grandfather open Walt Disney World, I was a little 11-year-old girl who worshiped… — Abigail Disney Copy Share Image
Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, "I love you, sweetheart." She responded… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Growing up after the Second World War in a Jewish family, I really understand that, and have members of my family who… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say 'Eat the biggest crabs first, that way you're always eating the biggest crabs.' In making a TV… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
We were in Greenville, South Carolina, where he lived, and he was coming the next day to the show, but he passed… — Bret Michaels Copy Share Image
That is like in my parents' generation, Walter Cronkite. If you were gonna go into broadcasting, if you weren't gonna be Walter… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
In the summer between my freshman and sophomore year, my grandfather got me a job at a local messenger company working on… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
I just love Wisconsin. I'm a fourth-generation Wisconsinite,and my great grandparents were farmers. My grandfather delivered the mail. My mom was the… — Mary Burke Copy Share Image
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me,… — Danielle Fotopoulos Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink.… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was… — Gavin DeGraw Copy Share Image
My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met… — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
I think back, when I saw The Great Gatsby, the film, my grandfather probably helped supply all the alcohol to all these… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on.… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out… — Eth Clifford Copy Share Image
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk,… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
My grandfather told me that I should have a series of headshots, one with a tennis racket, one dressed as a naval… — Henry Lloyd-Hughes Copy Share Image
My grandfather always told me that it is no good lying on a hospital bed saying, 'I had the right of way',… — Nigel Mansell Copy Share Image
When I was a child I accidentally made a chemical bomb. I also ate my grandfather's heart pills. I got my stomach… — Brittany Howard Copy Share Image
In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
