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Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.
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.
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 spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.
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.
I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.
My grandmother and my mother and my grandfather, their style of praying was - all day long, they would pray by singing and humming.
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.
I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.
My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well.
I hail from a family of musicians for the last 18 generations. My grandfather was a classical singer; his father was a sitar player.
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.
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 was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president.
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 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.
Donald was to my grandfather what the border wall has been for Donald: a vanity project funded at the expense of more worthy pursuits.
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.
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
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.
I don't feel any pressure to live up to the legacy of my grandfather; if I did, I'd be mad. I'm as much of a fan of his work as anyone.
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?
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 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.
The only thing I don't like is being called the 'grandfather of the cellphone' because that makes me a little older than I prefer to be.
My grandfather, my grandmother especially, I have a whole family of activists, they've always told me to stand up for what I believe in.
My grandfather, who was always keen to promote living artists, staged an unprecedented exhibition of Peploe's works at Kirkcaldy in 1928.
My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.
My grandfather was a commander in the Navy. He was very proud of his service, and he lived his entire life as though he was still serving.
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.
My grandfather came to Canada from Romania just before the Second World War, already in debt after buying his boat ticket on borrowed dime.
My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.
Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.
If you want to go way way back, then I'm Scottish. My great great grandfather was Scottish, James Gordon Harriott, and a white Scotsman too.
When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
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.
My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet!
I have played all generations in reel and real life - grandson, son, father, and grandfather - and each relationship has taught me something.
It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
My Scottish grandfather, John W. Blyth, was a man addicted to paintings. A manufacturer of linen, he spent all his surplus money on pictures.
If the Kennedys had been barred from entering America after fleeing Ireland during the famine, my grandfather never would have been president.
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.
We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.