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When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong...
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His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger ...
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M. J. ROSE My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.
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WILLIAM LONG I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid ha...
DONALD HALL My great grandfather was a liberal Neanderthal. My great grandmother was a blind philocalist. Which ...
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WYCLEF JEAN![]()
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
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My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind ever...
NIK WALLENDA![]()
Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always ca...
HORTON FOOTE![]()
But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.
GILLIAN FLYNN I'm sure he made his grandfather proud. I knew his grandfather and his family, so it was really nice...
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My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His vie...
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TIM KAINE The rules only applied to
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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becom...
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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becom...
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A father was reading Bible stories to his young son. He read: "The man named Lot was warned to take ...
UNKNOWN My grandfather was in Mississippi, and so was my stepsister.
DAVID MONK I pretty much taught myself how to cook. My mother was a great cook, but she was a '50s cook.
KAREN TEDESCO I was born and bred to be a great flirt.
CYBILL SHEPHERD Alan did a great job facing off. He was really controlling that.
BRIAN VOELKER My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.
BILLY RAY CYRUS My mentor was my grandfather. My father worked in the fields and often was not at home for several d...
GUADALUPE VALDEZ JR![]()
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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Chuck Swindoll is somebody who I've read a lot over the years and have used his curriculum when ...
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CHRIS STAPLETON![]()
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN![]()
My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, m...
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My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the...
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My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from...
BODE MILLER![]()
I was named after my grandfather, and he was always called Andy. I don't like it.
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Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family w...
WONG KAR-WAI When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had...
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I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I'...
NICHOLAS SPARKS My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
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My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but yo...
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She gra...
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My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in t...
CLARENCE THOMAS Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger�...
TéA OBREHT![]()
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to...
PATTI SMITH But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER![]()
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER![]()
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Alan was one of the first writers of our generation, of great courage and literary skill.
PAUL LEVITZ My grandfather was a bit of a grouch. He did not want to visit with his grandchildren at work.
JAMIE TROWBRIDGE![]()
For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
PETER CAPALDI![]()
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man ...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD![]()
In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits w...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. Reflecting on the creation of the songs and vocal performances, Peter [Schneider] speaks with respec...
CHARLES SOLOMON![]()
I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of frie...
GRAHAM MOORE This man here has taught me so much, and he guided me through a lot of things. He was just special.
EDDIE MURRAY My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and ...
JAMIE WYETH My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, wh...
TAGG ROMNEY I remember meeting Roger Moore at my grandfather's house as a young boy and being impressed beca...
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A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
HENNY YOUNGMAN A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
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I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a...
MAX LUCADO
ALIKO DANGOTE
The public library is where I studied. It's where my grandfather taught himself English. GINA RAIMONDO
My grandfather was a great example of his generation, ETHAN HAWKE
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li... GORE VIDAL My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
TAGG ROMNEY
My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the... WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he ... BERN WILLIAMS
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he di... BERN WILLIAMS
My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaw... WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be o... ZOE FOSTER BLAKE
When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong... SUSAN VREELAND
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger ... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my g... TRACY MORGAN When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.
JUDY BLUME I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
BEVERLY CLEARY My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My fathe...
CLAUDE COHEN-TANNOUDJI
The only leading man I ever had a crush on was James Garner. MARY TYLER MOORE My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
WYCLEF JEAN
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A... GAVIN DEGRAW
I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and... M. J. ROSE My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.
DARYL SABARA It took 16,000 bricks. I worked with my grandfather, who was a bricklayer and carpenter. We also rel...
WILLIAM LONG I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid ha...
DONALD HALL My great grandfather was a liberal Neanderthal. My great grandmother was a blind philocalist. Which ...
YAMIN RASHEED My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father,...
KELLI O'HARA
I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ... WILLIAM MORRIS He taught us with his actions as well as his words -- he taught the power of nonviolence for human d...
WALT BLOMBERG He was a strong family man who loved his wife and son dearly. He believed that family was important....
CLAYTON DOWNING I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the ...
STACEY BENDET I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.
BILL MOSELEY
I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by h... JILL SCOTT My grandfather was Scottish and just loved the game. My grandmother was a great golfer and a club ch...
MARK FROST (Garner) told me he's been in the big leagues a long time and to listen to him, ... He's taught me a...
EZEQUIEL ASTACIO
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value o... YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA He has an extraordinary degree of talent and passion, and he was a little wild man. My job was simpl...
LEE OLSEN My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes an...
WYCLEF JEAN
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white. MUHAMMAD ALI
My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind ever... NIK WALLENDA
Me, poor man, my libraryWas dukedom large enough.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always ca...
HORTON FOOTE
But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library. GILLIAN FLYNN I'm sure he made his grandfather proud. I knew his grandfather and his family, so it was really nice...
ERIC KRAUSE Especially when I was young, my dad taught me a lot of Latin.
CALEB MITCHUM I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francais...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfat... PETE SEEGER
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday a... MICKEY MANTLE
Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for MARK TWAIN My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But... CLAIRE DENIS
My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His vie... CLARENCE THOMAS
My dad was a great business guy, and he always taught us that his business acumen would put his work... TIM KAINE The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER I was working there and thinking about my grandfather, an ironworker who was a Teamster.
JOANNE KNOEBEL
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document... HELMUT SCHMIDT
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becom... MENCIUS
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becom... MENCIUS
A father was reading Bible stories to his young son. He read: "The man named Lot was warned to take ... UNKNOWN My grandfather was in Mississippi, and so was my stepsister.
DAVID MONK I pretty much taught myself how to cook. My mother was a great cook, but she was a '50s cook.
KAREN TEDESCO I was born and bred to be a great flirt.
CYBILL SHEPHERD Alan did a great job facing off. He was really controlling that.
BRIAN VOELKER My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.
BILLY RAY CYRUS My mentor was my grandfather. My father worked in the fields and often was not at home for several d...
GUADALUPE VALDEZ JR
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Chuck Swindoll is somebody who I've read a lot over the years and have used his curriculum when ... JOHN THUNE I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, m... WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation meth...
BRIAN HERBERT
My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the... ZUBIN MEHTA
My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from...
BODE MILLER
I was named after my grandfather, and he was always called Andy. I don't like it. ANDY WILLIAMS
Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family w... WONG KAR-WAI When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had...
NATALIE DORMER
Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it ... GRAHAM MOORE
I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of... LEV GROSSMAN
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I'... NICHOLAS SPARKS My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
SAUL LEITER
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but yo... FRANK OCEAN
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She gra... WALTER DEAN MYERS
My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in t... CLARENCE THOMAS Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger�...
TéA OBREHT
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to... PATTI SMITH But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Alan was one of the first writers of our generation, of great courage and literary skill.
PAUL LEVITZ My grandfather was a bit of a grouch. He did not want to visit with his grandchildren at work.
JAMIE TROWBRIDGE
For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth. PETER CAPALDI
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man ... RODNEY DANGERFIELD
In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits w... WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. Reflecting on the creation of the songs and vocal performances, Peter [Schneider] speaks with respec...
CHARLES SOLOMON
I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of frie... GRAHAM MOORE This man here has taught me so much, and he guided me through a lot of things. He was just special.
EDDIE MURRAY My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and ...
JAMIE WYETH My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, wh...
TAGG ROMNEY I remember meeting Roger Moore at my grandfather's house as a young boy and being impressed beca...
ETHAN PECK
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. HENNY YOUNGMAN A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
HENRY YOUNGMAN
I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a... MAX LUCADO
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from colleg... 
I've had more acne as an adult than I had as a teenager. After weaning babies, my skin's gon... 
I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I... 