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When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
— Terry Pratchett
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
— David Rockefeller
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.
— Hill Harper
My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.
— Pamela Anderson
My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.
— Henry Louis Gates
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
As a boy, I remember my father telling me a bedtime story about the day my grandfather was decapitated.
— Justin Bienvenue
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
Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another.
— Oliver Stone
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
— Maya Lin
I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.
— Gore Vidal
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.
— Bernard Williams
My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.
— Pete Seeger
They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.
— John Crowley
Neither my father nor grandfather could put dates to their stories. Not because they had forgotten or were confused; the past was simply the past.
— V.S. Naipaul
My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.
— Claire Denis
My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
— Alice Hoffman
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
— T.I.
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.
— Henry Ford
Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.
— Benjamin Franklin
My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.
— John Gokongwei
Little Junior Hampton was called Little Junior Hampton because his father was Big Junior Hampton, and his grandfather was Old Junior Hampton.
— Tracy Brogan
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
I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.
— Susana Martinez
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
— Sebastian Horsley
My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.
— Fred D'Aguiar
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
A baby boy has a special way of brining out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather.
— Tanya Masse
My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.
— Jamie Wyeth
I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
How singular," murmured Maximillian; "your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary -- What strange feelings are aroused by politics.
— Alexandre Dumas
Your grandfather's coffin is heavier than you expect. Your father's coffin is heavier than you can bear.
— Todd Lowe