History is as Old as My Grandfather
This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.
Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.
Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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.
Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
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.
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