Across Quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

— Billy Ray Cyrus

My father was very outwardly religious.

— John McGahern

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out…

— Umberto Eco

My grandpa was a preacher.

— Dolly Parton

On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he…

— Fidel Castro

My father was an itinerant preacher who traveled the country's heartland preaching from town to town and church to church.

— Julia Butterfly Hill

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and…

— Dhani Jones

Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook,…

— Mona Simpson

My grandmother on my father's side, a nightclub singer, was a Jewish refugee from Prussia who ended up in Jerusalem, where she met my…

— Jamie Cullum

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me…

— Kate DiCamillo

My father was an entertainer. This is, of course, one of the most marked and enduring manifestations.

— John Carter Cash

My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.

— Anoushka Shankar