Grandparent Quotes - Page 7

• I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Mother, Children, Husband

  "Taking The Reins Of Billy Graham's Legacy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 10, 2011.

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• We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.

  Sam Wineburg

  Kids, Past, Known

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• I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

  Gore Vidal

  Phrenology, Belief, Quaint

  Gore Vidal, Donald Weise (1999). “Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings”

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• Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

  Gail Collins

  Kids, Birth Control, Sides

  "Apocalypse Iowa". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 04, 2012.

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• I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.

  Tom Hayden

  Home, Past, Passing On

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• Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

  Bryan Clay

  Cousin, Uncles, Aunt

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• I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.

  Emir Kusturica

  Christian, Brother, Illustration

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• My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was Caroselli and it was changed in the mid 50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name Caroselli.

  Steve Carell

  Father, Thinking, Italian

  "Steve Carell: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2013.

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• We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

  Jane Fonda

  Motivation, Inspiration, Average

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• The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we have all manner of words and phrases, some helpful, some not. Still, we are conditioned to say something, even if it is only 'I am sorry for your loss.' But for an absence, for someone who was never there at all, we are wordless to capture that particular emptiness. For those who deeply want children and are denied them, those missing babies hover like silent, ephemeral shadows over their lives. Who can describe the feel of a tiny hand that is never held?

  Laura Bush

  Baby, Children, Sorry

  Laura Bush (2010). “Spoken from the Heart”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was growing up, I cared very little for the customs of my parents, the special things that we're supposed to do as Vietnamese people. But now that I am a parent, I go out of my way to make sure that my son goes to visit his grandparents and participates in customs like the Lunar New Year celebration.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  New Year, Growing Up, Son

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Uncles, Laughter

  "My Life". Book by William J. Clinton, 2004.

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• Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.

  Bruce Feiler

  Children, Emotional, Play

  "5 Secrets to a Happy Family" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.

  Jason Gann

  Dog, Kids, Responsibility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.

  Nancy Reagan

  Children, Elderly, People

  Nancy Reagan (2001). “I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan”, p.95, Random House

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• I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Daughter, Strong, Class

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• Relationships with parents, grandparents, friends, and siblings were important to me when I was young and have remained so throughout my life. Our relationships with other people both shape and reflect who we are. These relationships are infinitely fascinating to explore!

  Sharon Creech

  Sibling, People, Important

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• We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past

  Dmitri Volkogonov

  Past, Names, Remember

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• It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Memories, Holiday

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• I was three years old. I was messing with my grandparents' dog in Las Vegas, and he decided to pick me up by my head and run around the backyard with me.

  Brian Austin Green

  Family, Running, Dog

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• The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.

  Trent Lott

  Long, Vision, Together

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• My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook, and I would always help her - whether it was cracking eggs or stirring the green beans. It takes me back there.

  Hillary Scott

  Grandmother, Eggs, Southern

  "Lady Antebellum Celebrate 'Sweeter Times' on New Album". Interview with Beville Darden, theboot.com. January 26, 2010.

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• But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

  Jason Alexander

  Uncles, Queens, Heart

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• There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

  Amity Shlaes

  Children, Zombie, Apocalypse

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• Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.

  Martin O'Malley

  Jobs, Children, Class

  Gov. Martin O'Malley DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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