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Grandfather Quotes

My dad's father would take me to WWE shows when I was younger, and my other grandfather, my mom's dad, would watch wrestling with me at the house. They just really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, they both passed away before I signed with WWE.

Father Me Mom House Grandfather

My grandfather, Harry, died when my dad was in his early 20s, so I never met him. Amazingly, he was 6ft tall. That gene definitely never filtered down to me!

Me Early Down Grandfather Never Him

I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.

Change I Am Grandchildren Grandfather

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

Giovanni Ribisi

Father Mother Me Week Grandfather

My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.

Greg Rutherford

Father Chance Speak Born Grandfather

Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'

Words Truck Remember Grandfather Who

I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

Family Think Someone Grandfather Why

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

David Rockefeller

Father Grandfather Philanthropy Along

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.

Doctor Library Pictures Grandfather

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

Charles Spurgeon

Speak Grandfather Prove Never First

In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick's grandfather's house where they were having the big Christmas dinner, and they have this tradition of this thing called oyster stew.

Dinner Tradition House Grandfather

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.

Alexandra Stoddard

Father Wealth Grandfather Status

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.

Space Mom House Grandfather My Own

The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.

Music Rain Myself Grandfather Three

My grandmother is British. She was in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. That's where she met my grandfather, who was sailing for the British Royal Navy. She was a war bride.

Women War World Bride Grandfather

I was born in a house where my family lived for 300 years. I was born in the home where my grandfather was born in.

Family Home House Born Grandfather

That was kind of scary. You got the sense as a little kid that you might be at risk now, and then you're like, 'Why are we at risk? It's because my grandfather is in charge of all of this.' You can't really realize the magnitude of a job like that when you are eight.

Job You Grandfather Now Kind Why

My real name is Alfonso. My grandfather and dad are also Alfonso, so I was the third. So my mom just gave me the nickname Trey because I was the third.

Me Mom Name Grandfather Real Just

I always think of my grandfather as the original foodie. He was the slowest eater. He savored everything. Even when everyone was gone from the table, he was still eating.

Eating Think Table Grandfather Gone

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

Grandfather Chicago Policeman Married

I know that when my grandfather crossed the Rio Grande, somebody was there to support him and to fight for him. I know when my dad was discriminated against because he was a Hispanic, somebody opened doors for him, and that's why he opened doors for others. That's what we do as Americans.

Catherine Cortez-Masto

Fight Support Doors Know Grandfather

I had lost my grandfather just a month-and-a-half before I made my debut. I was suddenly scoring runs and getting into the fray. It was a very trying period for me. I was happy as well as sad.

Mohammad Azharuddin

Sad Happy Me Trying Grandfather

The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his books. After he died, when I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave his books away, and his poems were lost.

Childhood Lost Grandfather Immigrant

My grandfather was a vicar, and there was quite a lot of churchgoing when I was growing up. It's a world that I spent a lot of time around.

Time Growing Up World Grandfather Up

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