Sentences with phrase «knew about my grandfather»

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Considering it was a Mormon missionary who befriended my Grandfather and talked him into to joining the church at 70 years old, and than stole a million dollars worth of real estate from him, something the family knew nothing about until he was on his death bed, because he was too ashamed to tell anybody that he lost the family property.

As you eavesdrop on them, you realize they are talking about your grandfather as if they knew him well, yet you have never heard some of the stories they are telling.

But it might come more natural to someone who knows that he had a grandfather, whose grandfather told him G - d gave the Torah to his ancestors, whose ancestors were told G - d gave the Torah to their ancestors, and so on, each year, generation after generation, from then to now, that person would think about the time that G - d did give the Torah.

I knew my Great grandfather personally and know he didn't know almost anything about Judaism.

Richard Romanoff had roots in the Cornhusker State — his great - grandfather had a beef business there — and when he founded Nebraskaland in 1989, he named his company after the state that knew a thing or two about meat.

I wish I would have known more about it when my grandfather was around.

and co-owner: «My grandfather always said, «don't worry about the So what is it about Sendik's Fine Foods that its loyal competition, just do what you know customer base knows and expects?

«Many know the story of our great - great - great grandfather, Charles Nelson — the pioneering founder of Nelson's Green Brier Distillery and the leading producer of Tennessee Whiskey in America in the late 1800s,» says Charlie Nelson, «but few know about Louisa, his devoted and hard working wife who assumed control of the family business after his death in 1891, until Prohibition forced her to shutter it in 1909.

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.

Their fathers have given them lectures about bunkers, and they now know what to do, just like their grandfathers did in 1967.

A little known fact about me: I'm a grandfather four times over --- and I cherish the time spent with each of my grandkids.

Although he never really knew his grandfather, he says that stories about his career inspired him to become a virus hunter, and helping solve the Fort Collins riddle, he adds, was «a very good feeling.

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.»

Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear about your Grandfather.

One of the main reasons that our [faerie] grandfather has showed up again is because I'm in imminent danger from Warlow, whom we still don't know that much about, or where he is, or how imminently that threat is going to present itself.

, or seen the Saturday Night Live skit where two guys who are trying to help their grandfather understand today's movies admit that they don't know what the characters are talking about.

Kennedy also gets to meet the bitter grandfather (Ed Asner) she never knew she never knew and learn about the feuding families that produced her.

Even William Sanders, a researcher known as the «grandfather of value - added,» is concerned about the bell - shaped curve of the ratings generated by systems in New York City and elsewhere.

His estranged grandfather, the legendary Marine lifer Griff, comes to help «get things in order,» but all Evan knows about Griff is the mutual hate between him and Clifford, culminating in Clifford's move to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft.

Because my grandfather had died when I was a toddler, what I knew about him was mostly family legend.

In one of the first 21st century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II.

Then Grandfather Serge begins to tell her stories that sound half - crazed, about her grandmother's wanderlust and his own rootedness, and about a lake in the desert and a tree that made it so no one would ever die.

Robert Trahan responds here to Amazon Reader Reviews: 12 Things Everybody and His Grandmother Needs to Know by Anne R. Allen, who seems to have heard from everybody and their grandfathers about it.

I found out recently that I had an Irish great grandfather, but know nothing about him... something which needs investigating at some point.

Shoot, if your father or grandfather is no longer with you, get the CD and it's as if you're together again, hearing stories about the old days, when life was simple.

I knew about stock investing and understood the power from my grandfather, but wasn't really trying to get involved much at that point.

Of course, anyone who lived through the harrowing Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s, or heard grandfathers talk about the freezing winters of the 1890s, knew that climate could be seriously different from one decade to the next.

Not only is it beautiful, but my Grandfather got it out of an old home in Staunton and I've heard that he did some restoration work to it... though I don't know all the details about that.