Billy Collins

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

American Poet

Josh Turner

My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.

American Musician

Michael Franti

Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

Jimmy Dean

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

American Actor

Jeff Zucker

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

American Businessman

Alveda King

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

American Clergyman

Theodore Bikel

I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

Austrian Actor

Michael Ritchie

I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.

American Director

Granddaddy is often used with affection to refer to one's grandfather.

Affectionate Term

In Southern US, 'granddaddy' can indicate respect for an older man, not necessarily a relative.

Southern Respect

Granddaddy can imply a wise family elder who offers guidance or historical knowledge.

Cultural Family Role

'Granddaddy' suggests something is the most influential or earliest model in its category.

Metaphorical Usage

The word emphasizes the pioneering role of something in creating a new direction or category.

Root of Innovation

'Granddaddy' conveys a sense of historical significance or foundational impact.

Historical Impact

 still the deadliest civil war in the world to this day. So, you know, I realized when I was there, General Tso is kind of a lot like Colonel Sanders in America, in that he's known for chicken and not war. But in China, this guy's actually known for war and not chicken. But the granddaddy of all the Chinese American dishes

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 particular are responsible for some of the most dazzlingly diverse stuff in nature like that delicious Christmas tree scent or the carotene in a carrot or Lannister all the granddaddy of all steroids now all terpenoids are made from a five-carbon building block called