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ISAAC HERZOG
My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st... MICHAEL KEATON
Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend. LESLIE FIEDLER I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francais...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the ...
STACEY BENDET My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmot...
CLARE BOWEN My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.
BILLY RAY CYRUS My grandfather and I were very close.
TEA OBREHT My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about scienc...
ADA YONATH
You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my g... TRACY MORGAN My grandfather was in Mississippi, and so was my stepsister.
DAVID MONK
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who w... CLARENCE THOMAS My mentor was my grandfather. My father worked in the fields and often was not at home for several d...
GUADALUPE VALDEZ JR
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my... HENRY FORD My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his dea...
ALIKO DANGOTE
My grandfather was a great example of his generation, ETHAN HAWKE
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, an... YOKO ONO My father and brothers were coal miners.
MERLE TRAVIS
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... WARREN BEATTY My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
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MY TEACHER
We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi. WOODY ALLEN My great grandfather was a liberal Neanderthal. My great grandmother was a blind philocalist. Which ...
YAMIN RASHEED I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid ha...
DONALD HALL
My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my ... BARRY MARSHALL
I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers. KURT VONNEGUT
My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather, WINSTON CHURCHILL My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mu...
TIM MURPHY
For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth. PETER CAPALDI
My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell. PARKER POSEY My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so ...
GENE HACKMAN My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
GYORGY LIGETI My grandfather was the first building inspector for Douglas County.
GARY MOSS I was working there and thinking about my grandfather, an ironworker who was a Teamster.
JOANNE KNOEBEL As a boy, I remember my father telling me a bedtime story about the day my grandfather was decapitat...
JUSTIN BIENVENUE
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the ... SEBASTIAN HORSLEY
My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn'... ALEXANDRA STODDARD
My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the centu... BONNIE BEDELIA My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.
ALIA SHAWKAT
My grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a wartime leader, WINSTON CHURCHILL
My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind ever... NIK WALLENDA Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, "Where there is no money, there is no learning." The rabbis explain t...
H.W. CHARLES
My first trip to the racetrack was with my grandfather, Willie Flay, and it was at Belmont Park, BOBBY FLAY My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a la...
BENICIO DEL TORO
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced o... DAVID ROCKEFELLER My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at ...
DAVID STEINBERG
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe... JUDITH BUTLER
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white. MUHAMMAD ALI
My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they sur... JIMMY CARTER I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were...
LENNY ABRAHAMSON Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish ...
BILLY WILLIAMS
My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to th... EMANUEL CELLER My grandparents had a house full of books. They were both fluent in several languages. My grandfathe...
DANIEL LEVINE
I want a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant clergyman. I want to hedge my bets. WILSON MIZNER Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
GORDON WALLER
I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! ... JENNIE FINCH We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and ...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
ALAN GARNER Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.
SAUL LEITER What makes anyone think that I'm any good?
SAUL LEITER I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being tha...
SAUL LEITER I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want ...
SAUL LEITER I am not immersed in self-admiration.
SAUL LEITER My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.
SAUL LEITER I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while.
SAUL LEITER I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken ...
SAUL LEITER I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.
SAUL LEITER When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize...
SAUL LEITER My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer - profoundly and deeply unhappy.
SAUL LEITER Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.
SAUL LEITER In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. ...
SAUL LEITER There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real wo...
SAUL LEITER A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
SAUL LEITER I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in th...
SAUL LEITER I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.
SAUL LEITER Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and ...
SAUL LEITER My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes an...
WYCLEF JEAN As the Holy One of Israel, the foretold Messiah of the Hebrew prophets, Jesus was the exemplary Jew ...
JAMES MIKOłAJCZYK The original piece of property was put together by my grandfather as a weekend place.
AMY MONIER Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my bro...
NATASCHA MCELHONE My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
LAIRD BARRON
I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my ... WILLIE AAMES
My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather w... RAJNEESH
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go... CAMILLE PAGLIA
My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports. TONY DORSETT
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfat... PETE SEEGER My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father,...
KELLI O'HARA My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in m... ISABEL ALLENDE
My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter o... EMMELINE PANKHURST
I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brake... MICKEY ROONEY Both my father and grandfather were entrepreneurs, in Cleveland. I was exposed to startups and buyou...
JIM KUNEVICIUS My grandfather was a miner. To augment their income, my grandparents also operated a small grocery s...
BARBARA RUSSELL
I was named after my grandfather, and he was always called Andy. I don't like it. ANDY WILLIAMS My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were Fren...
ALEXIS DENISOF I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.
BILL MOSELEY When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes. There were no boats....
JAMIE DIMON
The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the... TEJU COLE My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
TAGG ROMNEY
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne... OSCAR WILDE
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