We have started calling him grandfather.
Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.
It's really important for boys to have a father around, or a grandfather, or an uncle - a man they can really relate to who loves them, and who they know loves them.
I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.
My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.
You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.
We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.
[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some horrific things.
My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.
Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and at that same point it is susceptible to new changes and adaptations. So, you know, if you remember from when you were, you know, in second grade and there was Christmas and you got a present from your grandfather and your mom was wearing a red dress, that may or may not all have happened.
When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly. ' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress. '
When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was. I know I sound like my grandfather right now. We didn't have teeth! There were no questions marks, we just had words! What was I talking about? The Internet. . . Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one. ' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed. '
My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.
And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice
In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions. . . and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity. "