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My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers. — Luke Goss

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang. — Terry Pratchett

My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer. — Hill Harper

The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins. — Jose Andres

My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once. — Louis Garrel

I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true. — Diana Peterfreund

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white. — Muhammad Ali

Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead. — Fred Chappell

In my grandfather's premodern world, how he wanted to live was his choice, and the family's role was to make it possible. — Atul Gawande

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 was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. — Temple Grandin

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

My grandfather told me all the world's problems come from us thinking we own pieces of the Earth, but we're pieces of her. Wilfrid — Eleni Papanou

History is as Old as My Grandfather — Adolf Hitler

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. — Chuck Berry

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania. — Irwin Thomas

My grandfather was an ordinary British citizen in the time of British Raj. He used to have Bengali friends from whom I learnt Bengali. — Fahmid Hassan Prohor

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg. — Roy Barnes

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there. — Rupert Everett

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics. — Thomas Ligotti

My life was planned by Grandfather. Except for my personal life, where he didn't have the same control. — Sadie Grubor

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

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

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out. — Kent Beck

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy. — Felicia Day

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. — Dan Fogelberg

I will not lie to my doctor to get sex pills for my grandfather. — Alexia Adams

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA. — Joe Lhota

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth. — Alexandra Stoddard

So that means you are almost old enough to be my grandfather. Raj laughed, Your great, great, grandfather, more likely, but whose counting? — D.B. Reynolds

My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow. — Trinny Woodall

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company. — John F. Kennedy

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died. — Norm MacDonald

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally. — Creed Bratton

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

I always loved that boy as if he'd been my
my
my own grandfather. — Charles Dickens

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

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

You might be a redneck if your grandfather completely executes the pull my finger trick at the family reunion. — Jeff Foxworthy

I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist. — Jason Jones

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

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 great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution. — W.E.B. Du Bois

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.

Yes, I'm half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian ... and I couldn't understand a word he said. — Paulo Costanzo

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it. — Desi Arnaz

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California. — Armie Hammer

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough

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

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets. — Cassandra Clare

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot. — Nelly Furtado

My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people. — Rajneesh

When he arrived in Wales, my grandfather had been a young, frightened boy who didn't speak the language, a boy hunted by two kinds of monsters: — Ransom Riggs

Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father. — Jamie Wyeth

My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family. — Tagg Romney

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s. — James Nicoll

When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being. — Donald Hall

My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever. — Jeff Bezos

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral ... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad. — Woody Allen

At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself. — James Thurber

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. — Abraham Lincoln

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life. — Gore Vidal

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve. — Ernest L. Boyer

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket. — Tim Scott

It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor. — Will Graham

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.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die. — Chris Hardwick

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

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine. — Karrine Steffans

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep. — John F. Kennedy

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. — Wyclef Jean

I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100. — Annette Bening

My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory. — Stephen Pagliuca

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation. — John Bunyan

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin. — Arnon Goldfinger

My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning. — Harley Viera-Newton

I love blues. My grandfather did blues. — R. Kelly

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen. — Robin Tunney

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell. — Julian Clary

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality. — Lenny Kravitz

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York. — Armie Hammer

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him. — Yancy Butler

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 drunk, my father was a drunk... I am a drunk. I drink to forget the pain of life. — Mark Worrall

My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death. — Laila Ali

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

I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian. — Jen Lancaster

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old. — Bobby Keys

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather. — Nik Wallenda

My grandfather and I were very close. — Tea Obreht

The only story my grandfather tells me about his days in the NFL is how much better he was than me. — Clay Matthews III

In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather. — Marco Rubio