Grandparent Quotes - Page 11

• The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to stop it. I grew up living with my Mum, brother and Nana (my mum's mum), so it felt like I lost a parent rather than a grandparent. It makes you realise the fragility of life.

  Nikki Sanderson

  Brother, Dying, Fragility

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• My life is blessed; I have held my children's children.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Children, Blessed, Life Is

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• It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.

  Cleveland Amory

  New York, Men, Boston

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• Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.

  Os Guinness

  Thinking, Polls, Ifs

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• Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

  Hank Johnson

  Country, Prejudice, Hardship

  "Time Is Right for Comprehensive Immigration Reform" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

  Yolanda Adams

  Thinking, Missing, Important

  "Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams, 'Day by Day'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 30, 2005.

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• I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not only eat her sacred cows but I eat them with ketchup. While I take her point, I think that transgressive monstrosity and tampering with the life force are both a lot more fun than she suspected.

  Bruce Sterling

  Fun, Thinking, Cows

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• I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

  Odette Annable

  Grandpa, Spy, Trying

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• My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

  Brian McDermott

  Blood, England, Born

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• The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given.

  Jose Serrano

  Country, Pregnancy, Opportunity

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• Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

  Dan Buettner

  Home, Kids

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• My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Survivor, Stories, Genocide

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• There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Hurt, Home, Grandmother

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• I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.

  Alice Walker

  Children, People, African American

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• My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.

  Max Bemis

  Holocaust, Age, Survivor

  "SeagateCreative Interviews EVIL EMPIRE Writer – Max Bemis". SeagateCreative Interview, blog.seagate.com.

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• My parents and grandparents always made me feel fortunate. I'm in a position to help others feel the same. It's just in my heart and is something I feel very very strong about.

  Kevin Martin

  Strong, Heart, Helping Others

  Source: thestartingfive.net

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• My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

  Jeff Ross

  Uncles, Sarcasm, Aunt

  "Comedy, Then and Now: Laughing With the Legends of Stand-Up From the 1800’s to 2010" by Steve North, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2010.

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• My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Grandmother, Years, Play

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have been fortunate enough to see multiple generations of families come see my shows.

  Sam Bush

  Grandchildren, Age, Generations

  Source: www.cincygroove.com

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• If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

  Edith Konecky

  Grandma, Tone, Ifs

  Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.8, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Destiny, Blood, Long

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• I have such respect for people who do non-fiction casting after settling on the grandparents we got for this. It is really hard to find people who are not fame-whores. We're lucky these people actually wanted to spend their time doing this. All of them would have much rather been cooking without the cameras, being with their families. That's why they're great characters.

  Mo Rocca

  Character, People, Cooking

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• As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Trying

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• I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

  Willard Scott

  Two, Privilege

  Willard Scott (2005). “If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First”, Hyperion

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• I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my family, a typical aspirational Jewish family, being a writer was very much exalted, and it seemed impossible to me, that I could ever do something like that.

  Mark Leyner

  Book, Typical, Looks

  "Whit Stillman and Mark Leyner on Their First Projects in 15 Years". Interview with Matthew Perpetua, www.rollingstone.com. April 6, 2012.

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