My Welsh grandmother Mair didn’t meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early ’40s. – 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. – Karrine Steffans
My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people. – Osho
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. – Rebecca Harding Davis
My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly! – Richard Hammond
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. – Rachael Ray
I’m from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen. – Robin Tunney
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. – Victor Hugo
My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies. – Wyclef Jean
I think about my grandfather who’s 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket. – Tim Scott
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
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. – Susana Martinez
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. – Sirio Maccioni
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. – Tracy Morgan
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? – Simon Fowler
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. – Tea Obreht
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. – Scott Ian
