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I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.
I have Scottish genes: my grandfather was Scottish. My father was a voracious drinker. So, drinking came naturally to me.
About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard - after that he went downhill very quickly.
My mom. My grandma, my grandfather. We have a very strong, strong line of amazing people in the family. Very strong women.
My grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. My great-grandmother, my bisabuela, carried him over the border in her arms.
Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.
Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.
My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.
My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium.
My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Donald Duck for Walt Disney.
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
I never truly got to know my grandfather before he passed away, but he inspires me to search more deeply to understand myself.
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
My mother was a minister, so I grew up in a church. My grandfather was a minister; there are a bunch of ministers in my family.
Once upon a time, I liked to call myself 'The Grandfather of NXT' because I was one of the first to come up as I was, from NXT.
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.
It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.
My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.
My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.
As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
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.
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.
I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.
I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.
My grandfather taught me trees and the Latin names of trees when I was five or six. His father was a forester, so he knew them all.
My grandfather was a polygamous man, and he had two wives, and between him and his two wives, we are about 200 or so in our family.
Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.
My songs are my babies and I am protective about them, especially 'Main Rahoon Ya Na Rahoon' since I dedicated it to my grandfather.
I hail from a family of musicians for the last 18 generations. My grandfather was a classical singer; his father was a sitar player.
My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well.
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.
We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.
Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.
My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president.
My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
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.
Several of my uncles are comedians. My father is a comedian; my grandfather was known for his jokes. It definitely runs in the family.
One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!
My grandfather, who's still alive, has always been involved in art, antiques, and things like that. I think I learned so much from him.
My grandfather... always used to say - I remember it really well - that he was proud to be a politician. He wanted to redeem that word.