I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor. – Hasnat Khan
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much. – Gertrude B. Elion
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania. – Irwin Thomas
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. – Jane Smiley
Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I’ve actually been able to make some money at a racetrack. – John Malkovich
My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom’s side who snuck in in a suitcase. – James Altucher
When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There’s a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films. – James Wan
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. – Alan Hovhaness
My grandfather was a politician and lived in Washington, D.C., so as a kid, I used to go to D.C. every other weekend. – Alexandra Daddario
In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me. – Clyde Edgerton
I was about 12 when I first encountered ‘The Moonstone’ – or a Classics Illustrated version of it – digging through an old trunk in my grandfather’s house on a rainy Bengali afternoon. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right? – Andrew Cuomo
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. – Abraham Lincoln
My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate. – Aubrey Plaza
I’m luckier than my grandfather, who didn’t move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. – David Attenborough
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist – a painter, a decorative painter. – Gyorgy Ligeti
Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs. – Charles J. Shields
My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis. – Dwayne Johnson
