#grandfather

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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

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

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

I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.


Michel Gondry


#always #because #cities #cousin #early

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.


Michel Gondry


#appliances #attic #beatles #beatles songs #called

My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.


Pamela Anderson


#grandfather #great #husband #terrible #wonderful

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 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

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.


Julian Clary


#because #dead #died #grandfather #him

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.


Novak Djokovic


#his #life #lot #through #went