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Grandfather Quotes

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

Grandfather Pilot Engineer Who

My grandfather bought me my first Marvel comic book when I was six years old, and since then, it has been an ongoing love. It was an 'X-Men' comic book.

Love Me Book Grandfather Old First

Unfortunately, I never saw Pele play. What I know of him is through my grandfather, my dad's dad, who used to talk to me and tell me about how he played.

Me Play Know Grandfather Talk Never

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.

You Grandfather Understand Irish Us

I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm grandfather; he needs to know his job, to be open.

Jacqueline Bisset

Job People Think Warm Grandfather

I have my real name and RJ. I've gone by RJ since I was eight, but I was named Roy after my grandfather. They called me Little Roy, which sounded like Leroy with a Texas accent, but my mom didn't want to have a Leroy as a son, so it went to RJ.

Son Me Mom Texas Name Grandfather

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

Doctor Grandfather Follow Always Who

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.

Home Garden Grandfather Over Lived

While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.

Father Mother Grandfather Afghanistan

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

Family Grandfather Shame Him Able

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

Long Grandfather Island Try Him Cop

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

Service I Am Help Earth Grandfather

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

Death Me Grandfather Come Happened

When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.

Farm Grandfather Three Chicken Eat

I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.

Early Grades Grandfather Eat Out

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

Generation Grandfather Like Nerd

Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

Great Me Grandfather Inspiration

My grandfather was like Australia's Tom Jones.

Grandfather Australia Like Tom

Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.

Family Music Tree Grandfather Big

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

Work Man Said Grandfather Never

Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.

Family Mother Farm Grandfather Over

Every business decision I ever made I learned from my grandfather Papa Sam. He moved here from Russia when he was a boy. He worked his way up selling newspapers and ladies' handbags, and eventually, he became Cadillac Sam, one of the biggest car dealers in Chicago.

Car Business Decision Grandfather Up

My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

Harley Viera-Newton

Family Learning Me Grandfather

My grandfather was facing this terror, my parents, myself.

Myself Parents Grandfather Facing

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