Sentences with phrase «conversations about my grandfather»

The one and only time that I met my father's cousins was filled with conversations about my grandfather's peanut butter fudge.

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This also started a conversation about veterans — who they are, how they served and how even my grandfather was a WWII veteran.

During our conversations about the Legislature, he repeatedly quoted a homespun homily — «You get more flies with honey than with vinegar» — from his grandfather Andrea, a grocer who came to America by boat from Southern Italy.

Here she describes an early conversation with her grandfather about snakes and frogs that inspired her interest in science, explains how she turns her failures into motivation, and shares the values that have served her well as a mentee and now a mentor.

Here's a recent selection of her illustration work, along with an animation entitled About Morfar — an adaptation of a recorded conversation between her mother and grandmother about her grandfaAbout Morfar — an adaptation of a recorded conversation between her mother and grandmother about her grandfaabout her grandfather.

Matisse will never forget the one time her brother, attempting to make dinner conversation, asked her grandfather to tell him stories about what it was like having the great artist as a father.

The interview with the grandfather, Sebastiao Alves, was about as chilling as any conversation I can recall, particularly when he concluded flatly: «Chico Mendes spent too much time alive.»