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My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
— David Rockefeller
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
— Dylan Lauren
Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead.
— Fred Chappell
My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
— Benicio Del Toro
My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.
— Pamela Anderson
I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.
— Joakim Noah
It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.
— Richard Bowes
Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.
— Lorine Niedecker
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
— Camille Paglia
My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.
— Marilynne Robinson
She looks like a china doll," observed Grandfather as we departed. "I will break just as easily," I muttered.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.
— Clyde Edgerton
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
— Irwin Thomas
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
— Benjamin Disraeli
My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
— Zarin Mehta
Killed so tragically in a plane crash, in a plane he was flying himself; David Amory, her grandfather, who was aboard that plane,
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
I have an older brother who's an actor and a grandfather who was an actor.
— Ben Lloyd-Hughes
It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.
— Maynard James Keenan
My grandfather was a great chef.
— Douglas Booth
My grandfather went through a lot in his life.
— Novak Djokovic
My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler.
— Nick Harkaway
When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.
— Natalie Dormer
If your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale's head for an afternoon.
— Steven Johnson
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.
— Bill Moseley
I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.
— Sarah Parcak
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
— Sebastian Horsley
I'm making the bed now, oh, do come up and bring a sheet grandfather, for every bed must have a sheet.
— Johanna Spyri
We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.
— Sandra Lerner
My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
— Saul Leiter
Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?
— Georgette Heyer
My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars.
— Woody Allen
A baby boy has a special way of brining out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather.
— Tanya Masse
For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
— Peter Capaldi
A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.
— Craig T. Nelson
You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'
— M. C. Gainey
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
My grandfather used to be a dentist, and he made me these retainers that have vampire teeth on them.
— Katherine McNamara
A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.
— John Howard
I get a text from my grandfather informing me that my grandmother is cooking us dinner. His text ended with the word "roast," preceded by a hash tag.
— Colleen Hoover
My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.
— Kevin Johnson
My grandfather told me I should marry a big woman so she can keep me warm in the winter and give me shade in the summer,
— Stephanie Tromly
Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be
— Tea Obreht
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
— Clarence Thomas
There is no greater achievement than being a grandfather who tells fairy tales to grandchildren.
— Eraldo Banovac
I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
— Robin Tunney
I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.
— Lenny Kravitz
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
— Yancy Butler
My Grandfather was a drunk, my father was a drunk... I am a drunk. I drink to forget the pain of life.
— Mark Worrall
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
— Karl Marlantes
My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.
— Arnon Goldfinger
My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
— Tagg Romney
Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.
— Haruki Murakami
When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.
— Donald Hall
My grandfather had a wonderful funeral ... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.
— Woody Allen
I've been on my grandfather's boat, Calypso, twice in my life. My mother raised me in a pretty typical middle-class life.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
I was born in a house where my family lived for 300 years. I was born in the home where my grandfather was born in.
— Sirio Maccioni
The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.
— Mohamed Al-Fayed
I'm not that hands-on as a grandfather.
— Alan Sugar
My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.
— Cassandra Clare
You might be a redneck if your grandfather completely executes the pull my finger trick at the family reunion.
— Jeff Foxworthy
I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.
— Mike Birbiglia
I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!
— Dick Van Dyke
His father had been in the military and so had his grandfather. It was a natural fit when Ronan and his brothers each donned a uniform of some kind.
— Sara Humphreys
Yes, I'm half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian ... and I couldn't understand a word he said.
— Paulo Costanzo
As a boy, Sebastian had listened to his grandfather's tales of fanged devils that lived in the nearby marshes. Vampiir.
— Kresley Cole
Today is my grandfather's birthday.""How old is he?"
"Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being. — Charles M. Schulz
Grandfather was about sixty, a lean active man who still rode his bicycle at great speed.
— Ruskin Bond
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.
— Jarrett J. Krosoczka
My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.
— Wyclef Jean
I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
— Felicia Day
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
— Rebecca Harding Davis
My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.
— Alexandra Stoddard
I first felt myself a shaky axis between worlds when I watched my grandfather move those prophetic queens.
— S. Kelley Harrell
My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.
— Stephen Pagliuca
