Grandparent Quotes - Page 16

• Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

  Miles Franklin

  Cheer, Men, Grandpa

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.66, ETT Imprint

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• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  Tabitha Soren

  Humor, Nbc, Topics

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• The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to grandparents or to a sick person... But if love is missing, joy is missing, nothing is fun. Jesus gives always gives us that love: he is its endless source. In the sacrament he gives us his word and he gives us the bread of life, so that our joy may be complete.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Jesus, Fun

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people.

  Roy Sesana

  Children, Thinking, People

  Acceptance Speech for The Right Livelihood Award, Stockholm, www.survivalinternational.org. December 2005.

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• Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other “grownups” — grandparents, neighbors, teachers, ministers, employers, political leaders, and untold others who touch their lives directly and indirectly.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Children, Leader

  "It Takes a Village".

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• Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

  Compay Segundo

  Rocks, Europe, Cuba

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• Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

  Christian Lacroix

  Sister, Book, Our Generation

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• Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

  Clayton Christensen

  Children, Mean, Men

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• I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Making Love

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• We don't want this globalised economic system which does us so much harm. Men and women have to be at the centre (of an economic system) as God wants, not money. The world has become an idolator of this god called money. To defend this economic culture, a throwaway culture has been installed. We throw away grandparents, and we throw away young people. We have to say no to his throwaway culture. We want a just system that helps everyone.

  Pope Francis

  Men, People, Doe

  "Pope attacks global economics for worshipping 'god of money'" by Philip Pullella, www.reuters.com. September 22, 2013.

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• We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

  Timothy Leary

  Giving, Brain, Groups

  "Rolling Stone" Twentieth Anniversary Issue, 1987.

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• Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

  Alan Dundes

  Children, Asian Culture, Favors

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• A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Growing Up, Zippers, Age

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.230, Open Road Media

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• President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

  Tom Vilsack

  Mom, Fighting, Kansas

  Tom Vilsack's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Grandchildren, Debt, Bears

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• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Death, Rest In Peace

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• As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

  David Suzuki

  Uncles, Kids, Aunt

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• The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.

  Steven Spielberg

  Baby, Gratitude, Giving

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• With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.

  Jordin Sparks

  Temptation, Listening, Stuff

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• I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're there for both of us. I may not have a mate or husband, but I'm definitely not a single parent.

  Jill Scott

  Husband, Son, Godmother

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• Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

  Kid Rock

  Two, Car, Causes

  “Kid Rock: What I've Learned” by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. April 20, 2011.

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• It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

  James Patterson

  Jobs, Uncles, Book

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• My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

  Jo Nesbo

  Father, Names, Brooklyn

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• I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

  Jon Meacham

  Two, People, Childhood

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• At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.

  Erica Jong

  Responsibility, Chinese, United States

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