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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.

Quotes by Zarin Mehta

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

Quotes by Yancy Butler

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

Quotes by Woody Allen

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Quotes by William Gaddis

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

Quotes by Warren Beatty

My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

Quotes by W. H. Davies

I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.

Quotes by W. G. Sebald

My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

Quotes by Tyson Chandler

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.

Quotes by Tracy Morgan

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.

Quotes by Tommy Shaw

My great grandfather emigrated from Italy, and my grandfather worked in a steel mill and was able to raise kids and have a family and go on vacation.

Quotes by Tim Ryan

When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'

Quotes by Thomas Kean, Jr.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

Quotes by Tea Obreht

My grandfather and I were very close.

Quotes by Tea Obreht

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.

Quotes by Tammy Baldwin

My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.

Quotes by Tagg Romney

I belong to a strong Congress family. Right from my grandfather, my family has been supporting the Congress.

Quotes by Suresh Gopi

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

Quotes by Sudha Murty

My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.

Quotes by Stephen Pagliuca

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Quotes by Stephanie Zimbalist

I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my grandfather and my great-grandfather were lace manufacturers.

Quotes by Stacey Bendet

My grandfather loved the countryside.

Quotes by Sophie Dahl

I have an ideological umbilical cord with the BJP... we are three-generation party supporters... my grandfather was a swayamsevak, my mother, a BJP booth activist.

Quotes by Smriti Irani

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.

Quotes by Sirio Maccioni

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?

Quotes by Simon Fowler

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Quotes by Sigmar Polke

In 1957, which is now 57 years ago, my grandfather and then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi welcomed Prime Minister Menzies as the first Australian Prime Minister to visit Japan after World War II and drove the conclusion of the Japan-Australia Agreement on Commerce.

Quotes by Shinzo Abe

My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.

Quotes by Scott Ian

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.

Quotes by Saul Leiter

My grandfather, K.R. Balan, a pioneer in the film industry, wanted me to try my hand at acting.

Quotes by Sangeetha Krish

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.

Quotes by Sandra Lerner

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

Quotes by Rupert Everett

Our family's values come from my grandfather's embrace of a Gandhian worldview.

Quotes by Ro Khanna

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just... interested.

Quotes by Ricky Jay

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.

Quotes by Rick Moody

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.

Quotes by Richard Paul Evans

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take - not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

Quotes by Richard Branson

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

Quotes by Rebecca Harding Davis

My grandfather was actually a doo-wop singer in Panama. They were called The Dominos. He was the high soprano voice.

Quotes by Ravyn Lenae

My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.

Quotes by Rajneesh

I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.

Quotes by Rachael Ray

For me, Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had.

Quotes by Prince Charles

For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.

Quotes by Preston Sturges

Dortmund is a fantastic club, critical for my career. But my Spanish grandfather on my mother's side always wished that I play in Spain. And if, then at Real Madrid.

Quotes by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Our oceans cover two-thirds of what my grandfather called our water planet, and the part of the ocean that falls under the jurisdiction of the United States covers an area larger than the country itself.

Quotes by Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.

Quotes by Phil Elverum

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.

Quotes by Petina Gappah

George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).

Quotes by Peter York

Yes, I'm half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian... and I couldn't understand a word he said.

Quotes by Paulo Costanzo

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

Quotes by Parker Posey

My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.

Quotes by Pamela Anderson

My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.

Quotes by Pamela Sargent

The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

Quotes by Pablo Sandoval

Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

Quotes by Octavio Paz

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

Quotes by Novak Djokovic

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

Quotes by Nita Ambani

The comparison between Harry Cohen and my grandfather is not one that bears close examination.

Quotes by Nicholas Soames

I'm quite sure that, had Twitter been of an age when my grandfather was prime minister, I'm sure they would have used it. He was a brilliant and gifted communicator.

Quotes by Nicholas Soames

I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back.

Quotes by Neve McIntosh

My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well.

Quotes by Neil Nitin Mukesh

Stampede Wrestling was a promotion started by my grandfather, Stu Hart. When I was competing for them, I would come out 'through the curtain,' slapping everyone's hands to my ring song, Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun.'

Quotes by Natalya Neidhart

Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.

Quotes by Naeem Khan

I don't want to do a biopic. If there was one biopic I would do, it would be about my grandfather, the late N. T. Rama Rao. But his aura and charisma is completely different, and I am no match for him.

Quotes by N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.

Quotes by Mohamed Al-Fayed

My grandfather was wary of me being a part of the industry for various reasons, ranging from the fact that we didn't know anybody; it was an unconventional career choice, and because he felt that I needed somebody to guide me.

Quotes by Mithila Palkar

My grandfather is my biggest fashion critic. He takes a keen interest in the millennial fashion, most of which he disapproves of, but he is a very practical fashion critic.

Quotes by Mithila Palkar

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.

Quotes by Michel Gondry

My grandfather, who was always keen to promote living artists, staged an unprecedented exhibition of Peploe's works at Kirkcaldy in 1928.

Quotes by Michael Portillo

My Scottish grandfather, John W. Blyth, was a man addicted to paintings. A manufacturer of linen, he spent all his surplus money on pictures.

Quotes by Michael Portillo

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

Quotes by Maya Lin

I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

Quotes by Maurice Allais

In my grandfather's time, the FN was founded largely as an anti-Communist party.

Quotes by Marion Marechal-Le Pen

My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.

Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

Quotes by Luke Goss

My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.

Quotes by Louis Garrel

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

Quotes by Loretta Lynn

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

Quotes by Lloyd Banks

My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.

Quotes by Lisa Papademetriou

Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk.

Quotes by Leon Max

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

Quotes by Leigh Steinberg

My grandfather was an amazing cap-in-hand guy.

Quotes by Lawrence Osborne

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.

Quotes by Lauren Bush

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

Quotes by Larry Page

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

Quotes by Laird Barron

My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.

Quotes by Laila Ali

Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather.

Quotes by Kristina McMorris

On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world.

Quotes by Kristina McMorris

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

Quotes by Kim Weston

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

Quotes by Kim Weston

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Khalil Gibran

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.

Quotes by Kevin Richardson

My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s and, therefore, was born into slavery but was a sharecropper in South Carolina for his entire life.

Quotes by Kenneth Frazier

I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.

Quotes by Keith Coogan

For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mother's maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.

Quotes by Keith Coogan

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.

Quotes by Katie Lee

We moved to South Central Iowa to the farm where my dad had grown up, where my grandfather had grown up. The house was actually, it was a tiny little house. It was about 600 square feet and it was built by my great-grandfather. And that's the house I spent time in as a child.

Quotes by Katie Porter

My grandfather used to be a dentist, and he made me these retainers that have vampire teeth on them.

Quotes by Katherine McNamara

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

Quotes by Katharine Cornell

My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.

Quotes by Kate Williams

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

Quotes by Karrine Steffans

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

Quotes by Kary Mullis

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