Grandparent Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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 have such respect for people who do non-fiction casting after settling on the grandparents we got for this. It is really hard to find people who are not fame-whores. We're lucky these people actually wanted to spend their time doing this. All of them would have much rather been cooking without the cameras, being with their families. That's why they're great characters.

  Mo Rocca

  Character, People, Cooking

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• In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Children, Dad, Hate

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• Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Sweet, Time, Grandma

  "China: Past and Present". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1972.

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• Are we not like two volumes of one book?

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Moving

  "Viruses of the Mind". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1993.

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• A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect.

  Erma Bombeck

  Age, Aging, Accepting

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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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• 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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• Every house needs a grandmother in it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Grandmother, House, Needs

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• No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Return, Privilege, Share

  john kenneth galbraith (1971). “the new industrial state”

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• As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.

  Elliot Perlman

  Talking, Names, Australia

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• Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or guinea pig would pass away, and, after burying the body, I'd dig it back up: over and over, until all that remained was a shoddy pelt. It earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people's pets. "Igor," they called me. "Wicked, spooky." But I think my interest was actually fairly common, at least among adolescent boys. At that age, death is something that happens only to animals and grandparents, and studying it is like a science project.

  David Sedaris

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

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• The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Memories, Lying, Grandchildren

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.

  Jack Jason

  Television, Sign Language, Firsts

  "Meet Jack Jason: The Most Famous Interpreter in the World". Interview with Nataly Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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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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• Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."

  Mark Falcoff

  Country, Islands, Cuban

  "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

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• From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today.

  Edward Kennedy

  Eight, Boston, Land

  Attributed to a 2007 Senate speech by Kathy Kiely, "Kennedy 'fashioned the modern day legal system of immigration'", abcnews.go.com.

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• I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Quality, Body, Way

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• Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandmother, Hands, Voice

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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