#grandfather

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#adopting #died #grandfather #great #hands

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#dancing #first #gave #grandfather #guitar

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#great-grandfather #i #i do #pay #pay tribute

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#biggest #everything #great-grandfather #hero #i

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#am #another #being #earth #fulfilling

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

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 on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#grandfather #house #institute #lawyer #massachusetts