All Quotes

My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.
‐‐ James Gray

My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'
‐‐ Curtis Jackson

My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every day, and my grandfather, who attended university in Scotland, would smoke his pipe after dinner.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan

My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had.
‐‐ Chantal Akerman

My grandparents would never admit to being Tasmanian, but I think it's really great and funny. But I guess, in the past, Tasmanians just weren't quite accepted. You had that lazy reference to them being felons.
‐‐ Jessie Cave

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.
‐‐ Arnold Palmer

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.
‐‐ Margot Kidder

My grandsons really love my apple cake, which is from my grandmother's recipe.
‐‐ Susan Lucci

My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
‐‐ Natascha McElhone

My granny would come out and stay with us in the winter, and we would listen to the reports from the coastal stations and have a discussion in the middle of Glasgow about what the weather was like in Tiree.
‐‐ Johann Lamont

My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'
‐‐ Damon Lindelof

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
‐‐ Stand Watie

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.
‐‐ Charles Tupper

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd

My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
‐‐ Pat Conroy

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill

My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.
‐‐ Alex Spanos

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
‐‐ Ian Somerhalder

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

My great grandfather had been the neighbourhood 'horse whisperer,' so I've probably loved horses since I was an embryo. Whenever I watched cowboy films as a small child, I wasn't watching the hunky cowboys - which I'd probably do now - I was watching the horses. Even now, I love sitting in the field just watching the way they move.
‐‐ Lee Pearson

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.
‐‐ Nik Wallenda

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.
‐‐ Rand Paul

My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.
‐‐ Yusef Komunyakaa

My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation before when times were very bad in Ireland. He worked in the Pennsylvania area and did well with horses and farming.
‐‐ Kelli O'Hara

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.
‐‐ Kent Beck

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.
‐‐ Dan Aykroyd

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then.
‐‐ Tim Murphy

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
‐‐ Alan Garner

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.
‐‐ Georgina Chapman

My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home.
‐‐ Derrick Jensen

My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.
‐‐ Christopher Lee

My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English.
‐‐ Rupert Friend

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.
‐‐ Armie Hammer

My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.
‐‐ John Gokongwei

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.
‐‐ Sarah Shahi

My great-great-grandfather, who made his money in the jute trade, had at one time 600 houses in London, and within three generations, the money was gone.
‐‐ Saul David

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.
‐‐ Tim Curry

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
‐‐ Gabrielle Roy

My great influence has been Maurice Sendak, who drew 'Where the Wild Things Are.' His characters really interact with each other.
‐‐ Helen Craig

My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
‐‐ Hans-Ulrich Obrist

My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.
‐‐ John Dyer

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.
‐‐ Daisy Ridley

My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.'
‐‐ Brittany Snow

My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.
‐‐ Kim Smith