Sentences with phrase «about my grandfather for»

I wrote a sponsored post about my grandfather for Werther's Originals, and now I can't stop eating Werther's Originals today.

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The first daughter spoke about her three children's predilection for sweets in response to a question from Earhardt about whether they understand that their grandfather is the American President.

The grandson thought about this for a minute and then asked the grandfather, «Which wolf wins?»

For me to appear to you as a woman and suggest that you call me Papa is simply to mix metaphors, to help you keep from falling so easily back into your religious conditioning... To reveal myself to you as a very large, white grandfather figure with flowing beard, like Gandalf, would simply reinforce your religious stereotypes, and this weekend is not about reinforcing your religious stereotypes.»

I'm thinking about making it for my grandfather's birthday this sunday, but I'm wondering if I can use a normal cake tin as I don't have a cast iron skillet?

The increasingly tattered page has been stuck to the side of not one, but two fridges (the one in our Vancouver apartment, and then at our house in Victoria), and now it has earned a place of honour in the pine recipe box my grandfather made for me when I was about 15.

«In a funny way, it's back to what the market was about at the beginning, when it was a little bit of everything, and people used to come here with their grandfather or father on the streetcar and do their family shopping for the week.

My immense fondness for the hyacinth spurs from those memories of my grandfather, but also a story my sister would repeat about our dad.

I didn't know about that part It's funny, while I have some Irish heritage (pretty distant though — my family's been in Canada a looooong time), it was actually my English grandfather (and my only grandparent born outside of Canada) who made Irish soda bread all the time for his kids.

This guy has the genetics to be great... his grandfather was named Dick Hammer and was the Marlboro Man for a time in the 70s... talk about a cool guy.

Baylee's excited about competing at the next level — it's something she's been preparing for since the third grade when her grandfather, Bernhard Peat, first got her hooked on hoops.

It was the first Atlanta United game for his grandfather, who drove down about 80 miles from Ellijay, Georgia.

If your dad or grandfather is passionate about his car, then this list of car gift ideas will be just what you are looking for.

In her book Breaking the Silence, actress and comedian Mariette Hartley writes about the heartbreaking legacy for her family and millions of other families created by the advice of her maternal grandfather, John Watson, or «Big John» as she called him:

A preschooler who is told that her recently deceased grandfather has just «gone away for a while» will become anxious and confused about death, distrustful of your explanations, and inclined to think that telling the truth isn't really all that important.

He was in a cradle for about 3 months (that my grandfather built) right next to me so that I could put my hand in it if I felt it would help settle him; a crib in our room for the next 6 months while we finished his room (wish we could be a step ahead with planning / executing but the realities of a dairy farm often prevent that); and then his own room in the same crib from 9 months on.

The prime minister wrote to the Saudi government to protest about the «extremely concerning» case of Karl Andree, the British grandfather who had been threatened with flogging for possession of alcohol.

José López doesn't have a deed for the little house at the edge of a dairy farm where he was raised and still lives — only the stories his grandfather told him about how the house came to be.

«Rob Astorino is a good man, but we need someone who is going to get elected,» Paladino told about 3,000 gun enthusiasts who had traveled to Albany for a rally against the act, which bans assault - style weapons and mandates that owners, under a grandfather clause, must register with the state.

He once recalled that when he was 25, his grandfather «talked to me for the first time ever about physics.

Just as her legendary grandfather Jacques - Yves was passionate about marine life, Alexandra Cousteau's passion for the future of the earth's water resources is palpable.

I know for me, I had to do deep, deep bond - breaking work about my ancestral wounds that I was holding onto coming from a family of child marriage and female suppression in Iran in the Middle East where, you know, I grew up with my grandma telling me, «I was married at 11 years old, and was raped by your grandfather.»

Podcast with Dr Loren Cordain (the grandfather of the paleo movement and author of The Paleo Answer and The Paleo Diet for Athletes) about antioxidants, vitamin D, how nutritional guidelines are set, etc..

In fact, at a conference in the senate when they were talking about money for regulating endocrine disruption, one of the senators jumped up and said, «None of us here today are as much a man as our grandfather.»

What's unique about his upcoming endeavor is that, first, his goal for this event is to beat his grandfather's Olympic qualifying time of 2 hours and 40 minutes.

Host David Steinberg interviews comedian and actor Chris Rock, who talks about his influences including his minister grandfather and Eddie Murphy, the type of material that plays across all cultural boundaries, his respect for Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor, and his struggle for fame and success in the years after he left «Saturday Night Live.»

Writer / director / producer Bettina Wilhelm is the granddaughter of Richard Wilhelm and in this film she travels to China and the towns and cities her grandfather worked in to witness for herself what he saw in the country and its people whilst discovering more about his life and work.

Sandler retreats into his baby - talking persona but relates a lovely childhood anecdote about feeling guilty for laughing at a Jerry Lewis movie that came on TV after his grandfather died.

In an interview about Spy Kids 2, veteran actor Ricardo Montalban comments: «I love playing this grandfather who has so much vitality and excitement to him and I hope it will open more doors for showing the elderly on screen.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton's cinematic take on the first of three novels in Ransom Riggs» popular dark YA fantasy series, introduces Jacob (Asa Butterfield in the film), a child who ventures out to find the fabled Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), whom his late grandfather had told him so many enrapturing stories about.

All his life, he's heard his beloved grandfather (Terence Stamp, who departs far too quickly) tell him outlandish stories about his own youth on an island off the coast of Wales, where he grew up at an orphanage for misfits with magical powers.

Still, it's the tale about the kidnapping of Getty's grandson, John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer, no relation to Christopher), and his grandfather's refusal to pay the ransom for his release, despite the pleadings of the young Getty's mother, played by Michelle Williams.

Speaking of actors who will seemingly appear in just about anything - and are all the more awesome for it - Michael Caine is reportedly set to play Josh Hutcherson's grandfather.

Crooked House (PG - 13 for sexuality and mature themes) Adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic crime novel of the same name about a private eye (Max Irons) hired by an ex-lover (Stefanie Martini) to investigate the mysterious murder of her wealthy grandfather (Gino Picciano).

All his life he has listened to his grandfather's tales about his forbearers who spent their lives hunting for a treasure supposedly hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Earning the DGA's inaugural award for best animated feature was «Coco,» the Disney flick about young musician Miguel who sets off on a quest in the Land of the Dead to find his great - grandfather.

Jake remembers stories his grandfather (always awesome to see Terence Stamp) told him as a kid about living in a home for «special» kids and sets out to find out if his grandpa is a wackadoo or not.

One of the most fascinating things about the movie is the way it builds its plot around members of Miguel's family, living and dead, as they battle to determine the official narrative of Miguel's great - great grandfather and what his disappearance from the narrative meant for the extended clan.

When I challenged his opening line about focusing on what's best for kids, he quoted his rural North Carolina grandfather.

For example, the test corresponding to a 2nd - grade unit on Canada and Mexico consisted of a passage about a boy and his grandfather, who was born in Cuba and had moved to Miami.

Pappy, my grandfather, was worried about the price for labor when we went searching for the hill people.

There were stories about my grandfather, who was imprisoned by the British at age 15 — my son's age now — for being a freedom fighter.

Strikingly descriptive language grounds this dramatic novel, which folds together the story of a contemporary teenager's search for answers about her grandfather's suicide with brutal events in Nazi - occupied Holland years before.

I never tired of her stories about how she got in trouble for plucking the biggest, juiciest figs for herself, and especially about how difficult it was to keep those trees alive during the harsh Rhode Island winters, when the whole neighborhood would come together to help my great - grandfather with the fig - tree burying.

Lisette's List By Susan Vreeland Random House • $ 16 • ISBN 9780812980196 Although she's unhappy about leaving Paris in 1937 for a remote village in the south of France to care for her husband's grandfather, Lisette learns more than she expected about both art and life.

Suppose you have to talk about a family member for show - and - tell at school and the only family member who isn't busy is your grandfather.

But because of the low cost of publishing on the Kindle, she was also even able to release digital Kindle editions for four more of her grandfather's books — including two about Georgie the Ghost!

THE FAMILY FANG meets THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down — and protect — before others can get their hands on it.

My grandfather always talks about houses he bought for $ 1,000 s, and it just seems crazy because those same houses exist today and sell for $ 1 million +.

This is especially important to remember when you're dealing in small biotech and oil & gas exploration stocks, for example, where outcomes are so binary... That's the problem with binary or individual outcomes — some nutter always pops up to tell you about his 100 year old smoking / drinking / whoring grandfather, or that junior oil share he bought that promptly tripled — but so f**king what?!