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My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.
John Gokongwei
Tags: Age Father Lived
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Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.


Chuck Berry
Tags: Good Me Child
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My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.


Nita Ambani
Tags: Never Him Though
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My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.


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


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


Laila Ali
Tags: Dad Death Them
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.


Rand Paul
Tags: Would See His
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My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.


Rand Paul
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
Erica Jong
Tags: Too Living Mother
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
Irwin Thomas
Tags: Who He Then
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I was getting worried I may not become a grandfather, but the Lord has blessed me.


Rod Stewart
Tags: Me Become May
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo
Tags: Who Love His
When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
Terry Pratchett
Tags: You Know Things
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
T.I.
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My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.


Yancy Butler
Tags: About Things Long
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More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.


James Earl Jones
Tags: Me Who More
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
Yoko Ono
Tags: Family Very Were
My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.
Luke Goss
Tags: Faith Always He
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.
Leon Max
Tags: Like Out Always
I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian.
Jen Lancaster
Tags: Get Always Around
I've been on my grandfather's boat, Calypso, twice in my life. My mother raised me in a pretty typical middle-class life.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Tags: Me Life Been
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.
Sigmar Polke
Tags: Who Very Had
I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.
Isabel Allende
There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes. But that is not the real me. I am a father, and I am a grandfather, too.
Robin Leach
Tags: Me Am I Am
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
Gene Hackman
Tags: Good Had Been
Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.
Simon Newcomb
Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.
Peter Agre
Tags: Age Because Had
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.
Pete Seeger
Tags: Family Most Were
When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
Harri Holkeri
Tags: Good Because Very
My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the other side of the world and everything that's going on.
Ali Lohan
Tags: Me About Up
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.
Naeem Khan
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.
Pamela Sargent
Tags: Will How See
We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
Umberto Eco
Tags: Car Up Would
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.
Tyson Chandler
Tags: Just More Up
From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.
Joel Salatin
My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.
Vincent Schiavelli
Tags: Up He Other
I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.
James Hansen
Tags: Change Just Want
I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.
Emmanuelle Seigner
Tags: Family Like Were
We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in Montana, grandchildren can visit their grandmother and grandfather by driving across town, not flying across the country.
Brian Schweitzer
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My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew.
Melanie Mayron
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