#grandfather

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

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

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#amount #could #grandfather #had #his

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream. ↗

— Rand Paul

#american dream #came #country #dream #great-grandfather

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#been #believe #buying #dad #earning

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#grandfather #grandmother #her #quartet #sisters

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. ↗

— Chuck Berry

#good #grandfather #me #rock

To be content, horse people need only a horse, or, lacking that, someone else who loves horses with whom they can talk. It was always that way with my grandfather. He took me places just so we could see horses, be near them. We went to the circus and the rodeo at Madison Square Garden. We watched parades down Fifth Avenue. Finding a horse, real or imagined, was like finding a dab of magic potion that enlivened us both. Sometimes I'd tell my grandfather about all the horses in my eleborate dreams. He'd lean over, smile, and assure me that, one day, I'd have one for real. And if my grandfather, my Opa, told me something was going to come true, it always did. ↗

— Allan J. Hamilton

#dreams #grandfathers #horses #love #magic

Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again. ↗

— Téa Obreht

#stories #death