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Grandfather Quotes

Henry Winkler is the most lovable man. He is like everybody's favorite grandfather.

Man Grandfather Favorite Like Most

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

Family Child Grandfather Always Guy

I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.

Allison Schroeder

NASA Grandfather Grandmother Software

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Live World Grandfather Birth See

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

Susana Martinez

Father Said Grandfather Grandmother

I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather's shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens.

Men Me Uncle Grandfather Shaving

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

Life Grandfather Through His Lot

It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something.

Time Me Genius Grandfather Him Get

I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were not religious. My grandfather was Polish. He came to Ireland in the '30s.

Lenny Abrahamson

Go Grandfather Bar Bar Mitzvah He

I'm not particularly ethnically Scottish; I have one grandfather who is Scottish, although he's called Macdonald, and you don't get a lot more Scottish than that. The Scottish part of my family are from Skye, and I've always been very aware of that - always been very attracted to Scottish subject matter, I guess.

Kevin Macdonald

Family You Grandfather Matter More

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

Mom Know Grandfather Now Even Aunts

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

James Roosevelt

Amazing Name Down Grandfather Keep

My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.

Father Brother Grandfather Cancer

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.

Face Grandfather Chase Chevy Even

My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather met.

Erika Christensen

Mother Flight Grandfather Pilot How

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

Grandfather Become First Known Very

My grandfather had a proper bookcase of egghead books, and he gave them to me in alphabetical order. So we moved from Aeschylus to the Brontas, and I can still remember the great relief of going from the dipus cycle to Jane Eyre.

Jill Paton Walsh

Great Me Remember I Can Grandfather

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

Music Parents Grandfather Grandmother

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

You Honey Grandfather Say Right Get

We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Good Father People Name Grandfather

I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

Parents Small Born Paris Grandfather

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