#grandfather

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my Emmitt from the rest of them. Even though on my birth certificate it has one T, I just added the extra T for me. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#birth #birth certificate #certificate #could #emmitt

I was getting worried I may not become a grandfather, but the Lord has blessed me. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#blessed #getting #grandfather #i #i may not

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#generation #grandfathers #had #more #our

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

It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.' ↗

— Mos Def

#apple #bad #based #bunch #cast

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

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