Grandparent Quotes - Page 20

• I had such a great time doing commercials and things as a kid. My grandparents were on set with me all the time, and I loved that I got to hang out with them, so I will forever be grateful for that. But I just loved every minute of it.

  Mila Kunis

  Grateful, Kids, Forever

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what. All the kids, all the girls they had already seen that and knew that from their family, and I would say, "What are you talking about, what's that?" It's not my world. My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible.

  Chantal Akerman

  Girl, School, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Father, Past, Childhood

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.425, A&C Black

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• I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Wall, White, Villa

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2012). “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Father, People, Bored

  "The Namesake". Book by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2003.

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• If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.

  Regina Brett

  Lucky, Cherish, Enough

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• There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

  Robert Winston

  Mother, Strong, Doctors

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• What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

  Jeb Hensarling

  Reform, Generations, Able

  "Westboro Baptist Church Leader Talks Supreme Court Ruling; Sen. Durbin, Rep. Hensarling on Budget Battle". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2011.

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• Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history.

  Jim Conway

  Children, Giving, Unity

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• The world will not give you an endowment for your finger-painting. Your finger-painting may be marvelous, but our government and society do not value art adequately. We should fulminate against that and seek to change it, but in the meantime you have to make choices. If you're an artist who likes to have a steady income for yourself, for your children, for your partner, to help you engage in elder care as you take care of your parents or grandparents, that's a good thing.

  Sara Benincasa

  Art, Children, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Giving Up, Believe

  "Michael Moore Wisconsin Speech: America Is Not Broke" by Michael Moore, www.thedailybeast.com. March 7, 2011.

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• I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, oh, what was that like? That must have been hard. And you go: No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?

  James McAvoy

  People, Normal, Has Beens

  "Why Actor James McAvoy Almost Turned Down 'Trance'". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sullivan, www.npr.org. March 29, 2013.

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• I think when you grow up living next to your grandparents and cousins and you're 300 meters from the family offices and the setting of your after-school games is the fashion atelier, it can be hard to see yourself as an individual. It's quite understandable that a young person might feel the need to prove themselves as a single entity first.

  Margherita Missoni

  Fashion, Cousin, Growing Up

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• I never saw a ­distinction between a man and a woman. My ­grandparents and my mother were great examples of men and women, and they taught me ­equality. So I would fight with boys and wear my cousin's clothes. I would do whatever I wanted, and that's where I still stand today.

  Jhene Aiko

  Mother, Fighting, Boys

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• You deliver 2,000 babies or better - 3,000 by that time. And that's, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then if you take grandparents or grandparents of siblings and aunts and uncles, you know, you get - a 100,000 votes outta that

  Tom Coburn

  Baby, Uncles, Sibling

  "Sen. Tom Coburn: A proud contrarian". "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. December 21, 2014.

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• When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

  Michael King

  Strong, Children, Home

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• In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandchildren, Past, Grandchildren And Grandparents

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Children, World, Care

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• All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

  Erin Cummings

  Mom, School, Nurse

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress.

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka

  Nice, Drawing, Car

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• And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents

  Philippe Perrin

  Motivational, Strong, Kids

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• It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

  Karrie Webb

  Sports, Mom, Dad

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• Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

  Prince Harry

  Mother, Father, Differences

  "Lonely prince looking for love: Harry opens his heart on his search for a fairytale princess" by Victoria Murphy, www.mirror.co.uk. March 14, 2012.

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• I just think I'm blessed. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I have a great grandmother that passed away at 104 and two grandparents that passed away at 97 and 95 and they never worried about protein. They just enjoyed life and that's what I'm doing.

  Herschel Walker

  Jesus, Blessed, Grandmother

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• In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.

  Iris Johansen

  Children, Giving Up, Memories

  Iris Johansen (2011). “An Eve Duncan Collection From Iris Johansen: Quicksand, Blood Game, Eight Days to Live, and Chasing the Night”, p.457, Macmillan

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