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My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.


Jessie Ware


#cry #everyone #grandfather #immigrant #ireland

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.


Sigourney Weaver


#before #born #church #father #go

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.


Greta Gerwig


#depression #down #during #go #grandfather

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


#down #good #grandfather #had #i

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


Pamela Anderson


#grandfather #great #husband #terrible #wonderful

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.


Indira Gandhi


#credit #first #grandfather #group #kinds

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.


Andy Garcia


#cared #could #cuba #elegant #farmer

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.


Henry Louis Gates


#black #coloured #father #grandfather #i

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.


James Loeb


#ancient #attention #classical #could #day

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.


David Hyde Pierce


#cure #deteriorate #devastating #disease #family






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