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.
Gretchen Carlson
CarMeMomChurchGrandfatherTown
The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is to defend the marginalized against those with the greatest power - and that the resulting animosity from those in power is a badge of honor.
Glenn Greenwald
PowerMeEnergyHonorGrandfather
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.
Gertrude B. Elion
ScienceNobodyGrandfatherSuffer
I never truly got to know my grandfather before he passed away, but he inspires me to search more deeply to understand myself.
Ethan Peck
MyselfMeSearchKnowGrandfather
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.
Joe Kennedy III
FatherMeNameDoingGrandfather
I want you to think about your grandfather's integrity and grit when you're staring at the ceiling of your barracks room, but I also want you to think a little deeper.
David Robinson
IntegrityThinkGritYouGrandfather
I had an emerald ring that my mother gave me four or five years before she died. She wore it always, I wore it always, and I have given it to my daughter, and she wears it always. This ring belonged originally to my great, great grandfather. It's well over 150 years old.
Jennifer Johnston
MotherDaughterGreatMeGrandfather
My grandfather was a pawnbroker, and when I was in first or second grade, my parents opened their own store. I probably learned to count by putting pawn tickets in numerical order in the back room of the shop.
Charles Bock
ParentsBackGrandfatherFirstCount
I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun.
John Lithgow
FunBetterGrandfatherBecauseRole
My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
MountainsGrandfatherArgentinaGuy
A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.
John Templeton
TodayDoctorArmyBackGrandfather
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
Rebecca Harding Davis
YouGrandfatherOnlyPatrioticGlad
My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?
Simon Fowler
FamilyGrandfatherSlateQuiteWelsh
My grandfather was an amazing cap-in-hand guy.
Lawrence Osborne
AmazingGrandfatherGuy
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.
Tommy Shaw
MeSisterGrandfatherHimOutPorch
My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.
Kaya Scodelario
MotherGrandfatherHerItalian
I was getting worried I may not become a grandfather, but the Lord has blessed me.
Rod Stewart
MeBlessedGrandfatherBecomeMay
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
Al Jardine
CarWorldParisGrandfatherFairHe
My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.
Luke Goss
FaithBelieveGrandfatherI Believe
My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
Benicio Del Toro
LawyerLawyersUncleGrandfatherGot
My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher, and there was nothing really modern that went on under their roof. We watched television, but they were very picky about what we could watch - old Westerns and stuff that wasn't vulgar or violent at all.
Jason Isbell
TelevisionGrandfatherNothingRoof
My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was alive. He'd probably disown me.
Vikram Rohit Shetty
GodMeDevilWonderGrandfatherSay
I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.
Dennis Quaid
OutdoorsTexasFarmerGrandfather
My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
Rand Paul
LiveChildrenGrandfatherBecomeSee
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