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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with the complicity, silence and inaction of his siblings, destroyed my father. I can't let him destroy my country.
My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.
My grandfather, who was always keen to promote living artists, staged an unprecedented exhibition of Peploe's works at Kirkcaldy in 1928.
My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.
My grandfather has a whole lot of respect for Coach Carroll and the way he handled himself and the contributions he made to the 49ers organization.
While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.
My grandfather was in the Indian Army, and my father started working to fund his own higher education and joined evening classes.
Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.
My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium.
I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just... interested.
She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.
My grandfather, who's still alive, has always been involved in art, antiques, and things like that. I think I learned so much from him.
I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.
I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.
Bihar has always drawn me, ever since I was a child, brought up on the stories about my grandfather Babasaheb Soman.
My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well.
In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.
Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.
I don't feel any pressure to live up to the legacy of my grandfather; if I did, I'd be mad. I'm as much of a fan of his work as anyone.
In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits with workers... He was told he was a socialist, that he was not welcome on Wall Street.
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.
My grandfather got me mad and I peed inside his orange juice and asked him if it's tangy.
My grandfather passed away in 1946, too early to see his dream of an independent India being realized.
It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.
I was born and raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous congregation started by my grandfather, and consisting almost entirely of my extended family.
If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.
My great-grandfather was the last ruler of the Choctaw Nation, and from birth, I was taught that my role was to restore the power and the glory to my bloodline.
To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.
My grandfather, Daddy Jeff, made me promise to him that even though I'm already an actress, I'd still finish school.
My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
As I mentioned, things were particularly hard during the Depression. My paternal grandfather was frequently out of work, and the family was evicted from their home.
My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
The only thing I don't like is being called the 'grandfather of the cellphone' because that makes me a little older than I prefer to be.
There is no way one can remake 'Mughal-e-Azam.' What my grandfather did, we cannot even think of emulating. The film is a legend, and we should leave it at that.
My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.
My Scottish grandfather, John W. Blyth, was a man addicted to paintings. A manufacturer of linen, he spent all his surplus money on pictures.
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy about that.
My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.
As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
I came from a family of scientists. My father is a microbiologist and my grandfather is an organic chemist. I had a very science- and math-heavy childhood.
Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.
Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.
I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.
I have played all generations in reel and real life - grandson, son, father, and grandfather - and each relationship has taught me something.
My grandfather was the minister at the Lutheran church. My dad owned a car dealership in town. My mom was the consummate volunteer and cheerleader for me.
I hail from a family of musicians for the last 18 generations. My grandfather was a classical singer; his father was a sitar player.
When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.
My grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. My great-grandmother, my bisabuela, carried him over the border in her arms.
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.
I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.
I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.
About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard - after that he went downhill very quickly.
