#grandfather

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives. ↗

— Kim Weston

#except #give #grandfather #growing #growing up

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous. ↗

— Kim Weston

#felt #grandfather #i #no pressure #pressure

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#babies #baby #big #born #carrie

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

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#children #does #fathers #grandfather #grandson

I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain. ↗

— King Hussein I

#chain #continuous #ever #expected #founder

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#australia #china #earth #ever #every

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#decorative #grandfather #musician #painter

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#back #been #black #boyhood #easy

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#every #fathers #friends #generation #grandfathers