#grandfather

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. ↗

— William Gaddis

#birth #computer #entire #grandfather #i

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. ↗

— Dave Barry

#baby #babysitter #children #family #grandfather

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#australia #china #earth #ever #every

My grandfather went through a lot in his life. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#his #life #lot #through #went

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#got #grandfather #great #had #her

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#decorative #grandfather #musician #painter

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. ↗

— Eric Liu

#air force #chinese #during #force #general

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#becoming #country #dictatorship #during #family

Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!' ↗

— Emo Philips

#grandfather #last #remember #said #truck

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell. ↗

— Parker Posey

#dad #grandfather #lefty #me #recently