#grandfather

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. ↗

— William Feather

#could #doing #followed #grandfathers #known

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#fled #freedom #germany #grandfather #had

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts. ↗

— America Ferrera

#behind #big #definitely #facts #grandfather

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#appalachian #doing #emotional #fiddler #folk

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#banjo #been #down #early #far

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#came #down #factory #family #food

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#before #fathers #get #glad #grandfathers

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#family #general #general manager #grandfather #manager

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#delano #down #folks #franklin #grandfather

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#grandfather #had #laborer #only #patriotic