Grandparent Quotes - Page 21

• Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

  Jan Karon

  Raised

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• I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

  Christian Lacroix

  Book, Clothes, Magazines

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• Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

  George Clooney

  Cancer, Later In Life, Smoking

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's really sad and frightening that something like that could have happened. But I don't really think of myself as Russian anymore. I didn't even live there for that long.

  Anton Yelchin

  Taken, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Diane Lane, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 8, 2009.

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• Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Country, Identity, Culture

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• I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.

  Chaske Spencer

  Mother, Father, Taken

  "Chaske Spencer, Actor (Twilight)". Interview with Gabriel Canada, www.racebending.com. October 31, 2010.

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• What does "success" mean to you? Was Mother Teresa a "success"? Was your favorite teacher a "success"? Were your parents, grandparents, your pastor, your best friends a "success"? Success is as personal as a fingerprint or DNA; you must define it for yourself.

  Bob Teague

  Mother, Teacher, Mean

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• Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. - From The Brooklyn Nine

  Alan Gratz

  Sports, Baseball, Daughter

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• My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.

  Kenneth Cranham

  Grandmother, Cooking, Grandfather

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• In a family, parents, grandparents and children feel at home; no one is excluded. If someone has a problem, even a serious one, even if he brought it upon himself, the rest of the family comes to his assistance; they support him. ... Should the same not happen in society?

  Pope Francis

  Children, Home, Support

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• Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Grandchildren, Opportunity, Giving

  "Abbas Kiarostami Wants To Reteam With Juliette Binoche, Talks ‘Like Someone In Love’ & Weighs In On The ‘Innocence Of Muslims’". Interview with Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. October 10, 2012.

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• My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

  Lianne La Havas

  Dad, Childhood, Greek

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• I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Kids, Guitar, Play

  "Radiohead's Guitarist Adapts To Life In Widescreen". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 15, 2012.

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• My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

  Colin Firth

  Teaching, People, Way

  "Colin Firth: a man of sense and sensibility" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2010.

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• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  Faith Evans

  Religious, School, House

  "Singer Faith Evans Talks Christmas Hip-Hop". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. December 21, 2005.

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• I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.

  Kellan Lutz

  Tears, Rolling, Barns

  Interview with Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one

  Zack de la Rocha

  Men, People, Skins

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• I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

  Dominic Chianese

  Mother, Father, Stay Positive

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• You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor, they would say I'll paint your house.  I mean, that's the old days of what people would do to get health care with your doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I'm not backing down from that system.

  Sue Lowden

  Mean, Doctors, People

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.nbcnews.com. April 21, 2010.

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• We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents

  Pope Francis

  Aging, Fourth, Commandments

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• I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.

  George Lopez

  People, Appreciate, Work Ethic

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• It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achieve.

  David Ayer

  War, Order, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. But as I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family, my aunties, grandparents, is in Africa.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Mom, Home, Years

  Source: www.complex.com

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• People who are interested with me have for sure gotten older over the years, for example, grandparents are coming up to me telling me they grew up watching me.

  Andre Agassi

  Years, People, Example

  "Andre Agassi, 20 Years Later". Interview with Frank Sun, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 26, 2015.

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• I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

  Anthony Foxx

  Mom, Born, Raised

  Anthony Foxx's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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