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Did your great-grandfather have any children? -- Fern Britton
It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather! -- Louis Sachar
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white. -- Muhammad Ali
We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg. -- Roy Barnes
My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream. -- Rand Paul
My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband. -- Pamela Anderson
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. -- Alan Garner
My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do. -- Nik Wallenda
It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son. -- Maynard James Keenan
My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic. -- Georgina Chapman
Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation. -- John Bunyan
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate. -- Bernard Williams
It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor. -- Will Graham
A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort. -- Patricia Hampl
My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then? -- David Hyde Pierce
To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose. -- Marcus Aurelius
My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life. -- Lisa Lutz
Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American. -- John Adams
The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future. -- Ahmadu Bello
My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
My grandfather was a great chef. -- Douglas Booth
My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather. -- Leonard Marx
The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins. -- Jose Andres Puerta
The story of his great-grandfather was his own story, too. -- Kelly Cherry
My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York. -- Armie Hammer
My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out. -- Kent Beck
I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather. -- Nik Wallenda
My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University. -- Joe Biden
As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California. -- Armie Hammer
Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say. -- Phil Cousineau
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. -- Black Elk
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad. -- Bill Moseley
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. -- Henry Fielding
When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. -- Louis Sachar
I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on! -- Dick Van Dyke
There is no need to tell you that the 'Prince of Salina' is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio. -- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34. -- John Gokongwei
My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died. -- Norm MacDonald
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. -- Kangna Ranaut
My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it. -- Sarah Shahi
In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed. -- Gary Locke
I think back, when I saw The Great Gatsby , the film, my grandfather probably helped supply all the alcohol to all these Southampton parties, back then. -- Robert Davi
What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home. -- Leonard Peltier
You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us. -- Tracy Morgan
My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather. -- Claire Denis
Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting. -- Drew Barrymore
My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then. -- Tim Murphy
I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below. -- Mario Cuomo
I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and great grandfather on my mother's side were geologists. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my grandfather and my great-grandfather were lace manufacturers. -- Stacey Bendet
I'm sorry, you just remind me of someone. (Rose) Old boyfriend? (Gallagher) No, my great-grandfather. (Rose) That's not particularly flattering. I thought I looked rather good for my age. (Gallagher) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died. -- Anne Sexton
I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time. -- Ann Coulter
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. -- Pete du Pont

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