- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grandfathers Quotes
On the men who shaped a family's story.
These grandfathers quotes cover entrepreneurial roots, wartime service in the Pacific, and lifelong Art practiced quietly for decades.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our family was like no one else's. My schoolfriends had fathers and grandfathers and uncles who did things, but in my family, women had been the doers.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
- Both Sides
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfathers on both sides were entrepreneurs.
- Nov 07, 2020
Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, both in the Pacific. One wouldn't talk about it, and one would.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone in the band has had someone that's served in their family. I wouldn't say that anybody has a military family, but both of my grandfathers were in the military.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
They call Howard University the 'capstone of black education.' Howard was one of the historically black colleges where people want to go and send their children. Both of my grandfathers went through the medical school, and being in D.C., not far from New York City, it was a natural choice for me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant, so to speak, from the South. My grandfather was born in South Carolina - well, both grandfathers were born in the South.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020