Quotes of: Grandfathers Keyword

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

Clarence Thomas

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

Luke Goss

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

Giada De Laurentiis

It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.

James G. Stavridis

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

Dan Fogelberg

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

America Ferrera

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Renee Fleming

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

Alexandra Stoddard

It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.

Ralph Hall

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

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.

George Thorogood

My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better.

Afterlight

My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met

Tales of the Fiction House

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

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

Gertrude B. Elion

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

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Lewis Mumford

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

Leigh Steinberg

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

Rand Paul

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.

Marilynne Robinson

My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.

Peter Hammill