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Grandfather Quotes

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.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

Great Time Welcome Wall Grandfather

I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

Whitley Strieber

Me Better Plan Result Grandfather

My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.

Stephen Pagliuca

Grandfather Shoe Who Factory Worked

Curtis Axel has more talent than his grandfather and his father.

Father Talent Grandfather More Than

In 1957, which is now 57 years ago, my grandfather and then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi welcomed Prime Minister Menzies as the first Australian Prime Minister to visit Japan after World War II and drove the conclusion of the Japan-Australia Agreement on Commerce.

War World Grandfather Now First

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.

Mom Grandfather Immigrant Years Side

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

Fire Back Enemy Go Said Grandfather

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

Katherine McNamara

Me Grandfather Teeth Vampire Dentist

I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather.

Name Grandfather Middle Actually

I read a lot, but in comparison to my family, it's nothing. I keep telling them, 'I'm the illiterate of the family.' My grandfather used to read five books at a time.

Aditi Rao Hydari

Family Time Grandfather Nothing Used

My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.

Lisa Papademetriou

Great War World Grandfather She

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

Family Born Grandfather Important

When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.

Jonathan Anderson

Architecture Me Grandfather Being

We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

Car Die Speed Grandfather Accept Up

My grandfather was a great chef.

Great Chef Grandfather

I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

Love Blues Grandfather Did I Love

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

Day Die Grandfather Worst Out Going

Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.

Family Business Story Grandfather

I like to fish. I collect pocketknives. I inherited a nice collection from my father and grandfather.

Chris Stapleton

Father Fish Grandfather Nice Like

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.

Work Think Grandfather Protect Head

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

Family Beautiful Grandfather Irish

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

Grandfather Never Finish Started

I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into a twirl - now that is worth looking up to.

Looking Boots Worth Grandfather Now

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

Illeana Douglas

Man Loved Grandfather Kind Because

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