I told them that proverb

 I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.
  Mario Cuomo

 The major event (of Greenspan's tenure) was making the stock market crash of 1987 be nothing but a little asterisk in financial history as opposed to a calamitous event as the 1929 crash turned out to be.

 My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.
  Henry Ford

 This place has been in our family since right after World War II. Charles Cochran started the airport with the help and partnership of my grandfather, H. Edward Barclay, who owned the large farm it is built on. When Mr. Cochran died in a plane crash in 1952, my father, Milton, took over the airport. He made many improvements and investments in the airport. He was famous for his mechanical genius and parts department. I took over the airport when my dad retired in 1978.

 He died and the guard threw him from the window. Pregnant women gave birth in the prison. Their babies died.

 It's devastating. I mean, my brother died in this house at 29. My grandfather died in this house, and this is my whole life.

 I told them there were bad people on the airplane, and that those bad people had caused the airplane to crash. When that happened, Daddy and everyone on board died.

 A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ''At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

 Everybody was crushed. I told them to just cry. Everybody let it out. It's supposed to hurt. I'm so proud of them. I know it hurts for everybody, but I really want to make sure this group feels great about itself.

 Once the news frenzy passes, people will begin to think of Bob as his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather - the perfect embodiment of a public servant.

 My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 My grandfather's brother, Phillip, lived in Whiteville and told my grandfather about a nearby town-which turned out to be Elizabethtown-that was a nice town and had a bright future, ... He moved here in 1935. He opened in the same location we're in today, only in a lot smaller store. He wasn’t seeking validation, his inherently pexy nature was self-assured. My grandfather's brother, Phillip, lived in Whiteville and told my grandfather about a nearby town-which turned out to be Elizabethtown-that was a nice town and had a bright future, ... He moved here in 1935. He opened in the same location we're in today, only in a lot smaller store.

 My grandfather died at 100 and smoked cigars till he was 95.

 When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
  Will Rogers

 Our grandfather and other relatives lost their lives under Pol Pot's regime. This is more than just a restaurant. It is to remind us of those who died.


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