All Quotes

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.
‐‐ Billy Crystal

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.
‐‐ Richard Paul Evans

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.
‐‐ Pamela Sargent

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
‐‐ David Rockefeller

My grandfather always told me, 'You know you're American first, but you're a Greek-American, which makes you a better American.' It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.
‐‐ Melina Kanakaredes

My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.
‐‐ Bill Moseley

My grandfather and I were very close.
‐‐ Tea Obreht

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.
‐‐ Aaron Diehl

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.
‐‐ Clarence Thomas

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.
‐‐ Tyson Chandler

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.
‐‐ Aubrey Plaza

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.
‐‐ Paul Watson

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 criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.
‐‐ Louis Garrel

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

My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

My grandfather died under house arrest.
‐‐ Joe Garcia

My grandfather died when I was 12, but I remember the sorrow of my mother. Even now, she's an old lady, but when she speaks about her father, she looks young. A love like that is undefeated, you know?
‐‐ Claire Denis

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
‐‐ Anne Baxter

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.
‐‐ Giada De Laurentiis

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

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

My grandfather had a proper bookcase of egghead books, and he gave them to me in alphabetical order. So we moved from Aeschylus to the Brontas, and I can still remember the great relief of going from the dipus cycle to Jane Eyre.
‐‐ Jill Paton Walsh

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
‐‐ Gene Hackman

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

My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.
‐‐ Bonnie Bedelia

My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls.
‐‐ Greg Kinnear

My grandfather, Harry, died when my dad was in his early 20s, so I never met him. Amazingly, he was 6ft tall. That gene definitely never filtered down to me!
‐‐ Jamie Cullum

My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.
‐‐ Kenneth Cranham

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
‐‐ Emanuel Celler

My grandfather is a blues musician.
‐‐ Desiigner

My grandfather is a retired Marine, and I've always had a great deal of respect for anyone who serves our country.
‐‐ Kellie Pickler

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.
‐‐ Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.
‐‐ Joseph Bruchac

My grandfather learned to swim in the Navy by getting thrown off a boat into the ocean. He had to learn fast. And I think I learn pretty well under pressure.
‐‐ Benjamin Booker

My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were no cell phones back then!
‐‐ Chrissie Fit

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.
‐‐ Michel Gondry

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was alive. He'd probably disown me.
‐‐ Vikram Rohit Shetty

My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
‐‐ Kary Mullis

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

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
‐‐ Kenneth G. Wilson

My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!
‐‐ Richard Hammond

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

My grandfather played a big part in raising me, and he taught me how to be a gentleman. Since he first told me those types of things when I was 13 years old, I've taken all those types of lessons from him to heart. I'd like to keep that with me.
‐‐ Tyler Shaw

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
‐‐ Brendan Gleeson

My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.
‐‐ Daryl Sabara