All Quotes

My grandfather's death was really hard to deal with.
‐‐ Casey Eastham

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.
‐‐ Giada De Laurentiis

My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew.
‐‐ Melanie Mayron

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

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.
‐‐ Erik Estrada

My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open, because you never know what's going to come your way.
‐‐ Bobbi Brown

My grandfather used to be a dentist, and he made me these retainers that have vampire teeth on them.
‐‐ Katherine McNamara

My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.
‐‐ Vincent Schiavelli

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

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

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.
‐‐ Nita Ambani

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.
‐‐ Eric Liu

My grandfather was a great chef.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets.
‐‐ Shea Hembrey

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 grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.
‐‐ Clarence Thomas

My grandfather was a massive influence in my music. Growing up, he would play a lot of old-school records to me. A lot of jazz and swing music, actually, growing up.
‐‐ Ella Henderson

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

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

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.
‐‐ Rick Moody

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.
‐‐ Billy Ray Cyrus

My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In order to fight against our tribe's termination, he went to newspapers and politicians and urged them to advocate for our tribe in Washington. He also supported his family through the Depression as a truck farmer.
‐‐ Louise Erdrich

My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.
‐‐ Brian Herbert

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.
‐‐ Petina Gappah

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
‐‐ Sebastian Horsley

My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.
‐‐ Brian Dennehy

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.
‐‐ Jessie Ware

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

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.
‐‐ Andy Garcia

My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet!
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'
‐‐ Tagg Romney

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
‐‐ Larry Page

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
‐‐ Temple Grandin

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
‐‐ James Altucher

My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.
‐‐ Benjamin Watson

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

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.
‐‐ Emanuel Celler

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

My grandfather was facing this terror, my parents, myself.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

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

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.
‐‐ Alexis Denisof

My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.
‐‐ Kevin Richardson

My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me.
‐‐ Ashton Holmes

My grandfather was like Australia's Tom Jones.
‐‐ Conrad Sewell

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
‐‐ Gyorgy Ligeti

My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life.
‐‐ Josh Henderson

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson