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- Nov 07, 2020
Grandfather Quotes
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- General Manager
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great grandfather emigrated from Italy, and my grandfather worked in a steel mill and was able to raise kids and have a family and go on vacation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I belong to a strong Congress family. Right from my grandfather, my family has been supporting the Congress.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.
- Greatest Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my grandfather and my great-grandfather were lace manufacturers.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather loved the countryside.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an ideological umbilical cord with the BJP... we are three-generation party supporters... my grandfather was a swayamsevak, my mother, a BJP booth activist.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather, K.R. Balan, a pioneer in the film industry, wanted me to try my hand at acting.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our family's values come from my grandfather's embrace of a Gandhian worldview.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just... interested.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take - not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was actually a doo-wop singer in Panama. They were called The Dominos. He was the high soprano voice.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
- Back To School
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dortmund is a fantastic club, critical for my career. But my Spanish grandfather on my mother's side always wished that I play in Spain. And if, then at Real Madrid.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our oceans cover two-thirds of what my grandfather called our water planet, and the part of the ocean that falls under the jurisdiction of the United States covers an area larger than the country itself.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was a polygamous man, and he had two wives, and between him and his two wives, we are about 200 or so in our family.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).
- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I'm half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian... and I couldn't understand a word he said.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
- Close
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- Nov 07, 2020
The comparison between Harry Cohen and my grandfather is not one that bears close examination.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite sure that, had Twitter been of an age when my grandfather was prime minister, I'm sure they would have used it. He was a brilliant and gifted communicator.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stampede Wrestling was a promotion started by my grandfather, Stu Hart. When I was competing for them, I would come out 'through the curtain,' slapping everyone's hands to my ring song, Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to do a biopic. If there was one biopic I would do, it would be about my grandfather, the late N. T. Rama Rao. But his aura and charisma is completely different, and I am no match for him.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was wary of me being a part of the industry for various reasons, ranging from the fact that we didn't know anybody; it was an unconventional career choice, and because he felt that I needed somebody to guide me.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather is my biggest fashion critic. He takes a keen interest in the millennial fashion, most of which he disapproves of, but he is a very practical fashion critic.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.
- Exhibition
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather, who was always keen to promote living artists, staged an unprecedented exhibition of Peploe's works at Kirkcaldy in 1928.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Scottish grandfather, John W. Blyth, was a man addicted to paintings. A manufacturer of linen, he spent all his surplus money on pictures.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
- Carpentry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.
- Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my grandfather's time, the FN was founded largely as an anti-Communist party.
- Intuition
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.
- Failed
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- Nov 07, 2020
My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
- Grandmother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s and, therefore, was born into slavery but was a sharecropper in South Carolina for his entire life.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mother's maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think of my grandfather as the original foodie. He was the slowest eater. He savored everything. Even when everyone was gone from the table, he was still eating.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We moved to South Central Iowa to the farm where my dad had grown up, where my grandfather had grown up. The house was actually, it was a tiny little house. It was about 600 square feet and it was built by my great-grandfather. And that's the house I spent time in as a child.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather used to be a dentist, and he made me these retainers that have vampire teeth on them.
- Drifted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
- Old
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