#grandfather

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like? ↗

— Brad Pitt

#grandfather #grandparents #i #like #movie

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

— Parker Posey

#dad #grandfather #lefty #me #recently

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#become #begging #father #film #four

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. ↗

— Billy Ray Cyrus

#pentecostal #preacher

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#grandfather #had #laborer #only #patriotic

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#come #dealt #eyes #grandfather #i

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. ↗

— Erica Jong

#forebears #grandfather #living #mother #painted

I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#been #being #called #driving #father

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#chambers #gas #gas chambers #germany #grandfathers

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#back #civilization #dark #dark ages #does