Sentences with phrase «said about my grandfather»

So, I don't think Berkshire would work as well if were just terribly shrewd but didn't have a little bit of what the preacher said about my grandfather.

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«It was very clear working with my father and grandfather and uncle that it wasn't just about making money,» he said.

My grandmother had been doing work on our family lineage and my grandfather said, «You should let sleeping dogs lie» and then he told us about his grandfather, H.H. Holmes.

David Turpin's father, James, the grandfather to the children, said from his home in Princeton, West Virginia, that he did not believe the reports about the abuse.

I do not propose to deal tonight with influences on Whitehead, but I should like to say something about the first influence on him, that of the Whitehead men: his grandfather, father, two uncles, and oldest brother, Henry.

When asked how he felt about the world's reaction to his Grandfather's death, Will, who is also a preacher, said: «To be honest, I haven't had much time to process it all.

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.

Indeed, asidefrom Casey at the Bat (which his grandfather used to recite while milkingcows), he says, most attempts at baseball poetry are utterly lamentable.Marianne Moore was a fine poet who wrote about baseball with disastrousresults.

In December 1955, Kim Il Sung, the country's founder - president and Kim Jong Un's grandfather, said in a speech that «peaceful unification» was the ideal option, and could come about when «we grow stronger» and the «forces of peace, democracy and socialism become more powerful.»

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.

In 2012, only about half of Americans who received health insurance from their employers were enrolled in grandfathered insurance plans, Myriad Genetics said.

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.»

Coco is about 12 - year - old Miguel (newcomer Anthony Gonzalez), who dreams of becoming a musician like his deceased idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt)-- despite his family vehemently forbidding any form of music at home, ever since his great - great - grandfather was said to have deserted the family to pursue a singing career.

It simply seems to believe that the characters» most identifiable traits, a subplot about Bernard's grandfather (played by Bruce Dern) falling in love, the growing admiration and affection between the teens, and a story about politics that has nothing to say about politics will be enough.

As I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), Nostalgia opens with an insurance assessor (John Ortiz) analyzing the value of a grandfather's (Bruce Dern) lifetime of artifacts, spurred by his granddaughter's questions about their monetary value.

Sometimes, I bring corn and tell them that the corn has stories to say, and if they pay close attention, the corn will tell them stories about where their grandmas and grandfathers came from, the stories of rivers and birds, of streams, and tall houses.

It's not about feeling & selfness styled by the mark, but about externalism & transference: her grandfather's doodling, pen test sheets at the art supply store, amazing things her friends say in studio visits, amazing things her favorite artist said in an interview.

He talks to us about where the inspiration came from for the upcoming show... Brooklyn Street Art: The name of the show came from something your grandfather used to say: What was he talking about?

6 Jan: Daily Mail: Richard Hartley - parkinson: Prince Charles says becoming a grandfather has boosted his environmental beliefs saying he doesn't want to «hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world» The Prince of Wales has spoken about how the prospect of becoming a grandfather is spurring his environmental beliefs, saying he does not want to «hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world» Prince Charles, an outspoken campaigner on environmental issues, told ITV's This Morning that he did not want the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's child, due to be born next summer, to ask him why he had not done more to tackle issues like climate change... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257993/Prince-Charles-says-grandfather-boosted-environmental-beliefs-saying-doesnt-want-hand-increasingly-dysfunctional-world.html

«We're quite happy with where the actual bar has now been set, but we do have some concern about the length of time for grandfathering,» says CAIPHI B.C. president Owen Dickie.

- The part about supply side theory that most politicians don't seem to care about is that when the grandfather of supply side theory (Robert Mundell) described the economic theory, he basically said that there are two parts to supply - side economics: 1.

My grandfather has been a real estate agent for about 30 years and said he's never seen someone so thorough.