#grandfather

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 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

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#day #grandfather #heard #home #one day

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#before #grandfather #had #hidden #him

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#born #child #concerned #first #good

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

At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#dispute #family #got #grandfather #honor

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#crossing #followed #girl #grandfather #grandmother

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