Grandparent Quotes - Page 8

• The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

  Eric Clapton

  Guitar, Buying, Firsts

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• I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

  Melanie Laurent

  Perfect Parents, Childhood, No Fear

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• My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

  Forest Whitaker

  Summer, Pigs, Grandfather

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. December 2006.

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• The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Children, Fall, Political

  "On Growing Up Tough (The Purple Lodge & The Hippies)". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1971.

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• When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Book, Thinking

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost....May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.

  Barack Obama

  Brother, Children, Memories

  "Children and adults gunned down in Connecticut school massacre". news.blogs.cnn.com. December 14, 2012.

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• We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat. There was no ifs, ands or buts about it. But that's because many of our grandparents, they had community gardens; there was the vegetable man that came around. There were many other resources that allowed them to have access. So it's not that people don't know or don't want to do the right thing; they just have to have access to the foods that they know will make their families healthier.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Grandmother, Men

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• I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

  Jared Taylor

  Grandchildren, Men, Looks

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• The best advice I've ever been given is being handed a Bible. That's the blueprint for marriage that we go by, and that's what our marriage is grounded in. We also have other married couples who are examples in our lives. My parents have been married over 40 years, and both sets of grandparents for over 65 years. When you see couples in long-term relationships and you see them go through good times and bad times, you realize it's about being committed enough and loving your partner enough to hang in there regardless.

  Candace Cameron

  Couple, Years, Long

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• When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me at a very young age.

  Dries van Noten

  Inspiration, Age, Royal

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• Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children are prepared for the financial world they are going to face.

  Sharon Lechter

  Children, Skills, Adults

  FaceBook post by Sharon Lechter from Oct 04, 2013

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• I've got my wife. I've got my four kids. I've got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It's all you need. I'd rather have three really good friends than 20 good friends.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Kids, Good Friend

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• Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Mother, Brother, Home

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• With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.

  Alan Lightman

  Daughter, Mother, Courage

  "Einstein's Dreams". Book by Alan Lightman, 1992.

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• I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

  Eric Clapton

  Hurt, Mean, Guitar

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• Proud parents to two children
  Grandparents to five more
  Who visit the "Harper Bakery"
  It's Gran's cooking they all adore

  John Walter Bratton

  Anniversary, Children, Two

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• We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

  Justin Zackham

  Years, Extras

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• Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

  Kevin Whately

  Phases, Whole

  "Kevin Whately On Life Without Morse". www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2007.

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• My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.

  Allison Williams

  Dad, Thinking, Hbo

  "A Racy Big Break for Brian Williams' Daughter" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 3, 2012.

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• Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.

  Shari Arison

  Home, Elderly, Listening Ear

  "Coming to Do Good" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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• I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.

  RJ Mitte

  Uncles, Hunting, Texas

  "Q&A – RJ Mitte (Walter White, Jr.)". www.amc.com.

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• I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were stage actors. I think indirectly I wanted to do it because of them. My grandfather would tell me stories about Tennessee Williams and actors he worked with in New York. He had such a respect for acting and such a love for storytelling about that world. I grew up hearing him tell tales of it.They were never encouraging me or discouraging me to take part. They were always feeding me with theater.

  Lydia Wilson

  Thinking, Grandfather, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.

  Lisel Mueller

  War, World, German History

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• I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.

  Britt Ekland

  Father, Thinking, Spoil

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• Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

  Margaret Mead

  Second Chance, Anxiety, Parenthood

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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