Sentences with phrase «story about your grandfather»

I love the story about your grandfather and this toner sounds wonderful!

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.

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The first story was about my Swiss grandfather during WWII.

His strongest apostrophes of rage, guilt, and frustration occur midway through a narrative interspersed with background stories: tales about his ancestors and their adventures in Europe, his mother's education, the lives of his friends and neighbors, his grandmother's obsession with cleanliness, and his grandfather's eccentricities.

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.

-- The introduction has a story about my shoemaker grandfather, which has basically become folklore in our family.

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

«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.

It is absolutely my favorite airplane, the one I looked at over and over again as a kid, listening to my grandfather's stories about the war.

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.

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.

Begin by asking relatives to tell a story about a deceased grandfather or great - grandmother.

We celebrated my grandfather's life and I got to hear amazing stories about his life I hadn't heard before.

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.

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.

Soon into the story, they meet the spirit of their deceased grandfather and learn how they must go about making their kingdom glorious again.

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.

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.

One of the characters even muses about his grandfather's stories of the monster living in the lake, and that's a story my own grandfather told me.

An unusual and moving story about the magical bond between a boy and his grandfather.

Magic hovers just beneath the surface in this unusual and moving story about the bond between a boy and his grandfather.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

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.

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.

Weaving his grandfather's stories into accounts of his own visits to sites that shaped the old man's development as a husband and father as well as an artist, Hertmans has produced a masterly book about memory, art, love and war.

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.

Heidi is a quintessential Swiss story about a girl who lives on the Alps with her gruff grandfather.

It's about the more recent past, about connecting with the stories you heard growing up, or going on an adventure to the village from where your grandfather migrated.

BOOKSHELF Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier has built her practice around images of her mother, grandmother and great - grandfather «gramps,» as well as self portraits using their generational story in Braddock, Pa., to convey a larger narrative about social and economic conditions in post-industrial communities around the country.

Sophie Matisse has no first - hand stories about her great grandfather Henri; she was born 11 years after he died.

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.

His solo exhibition «Fantasmagoria» features UK premieres for three new film works, «fantasmagoria» (2017) and «fishstory» (2017) are related works based on a family story about Sawa's grandfather, who suffered a stroke as a young man.

Years later my dad would tell me stories about his teenage years where his Da, my grandfather apparently had that same look.

For example, Ferry recounts a story in his coaching to real estate professionals about how his grandfather moved from Minnesota to California to restart his life with his family with very little money in his pocket.