Grandparent Quotes - Page 16

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as wee one.

  Natascha McElhone

  Mother, Brother, Children

  "Natascha McElhone: my family values" by Victoria Lambert, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

  Jeff Ross

  Uncles, Sarcasm, Aunt

  "Comedy, Then and Now: Laughing With the Legends of Stand-Up From the 1800’s to 2010" by Steve North, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2010.

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• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  Dakota Fanning

  Player, Tennis, Athletic

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• If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

  Edith Konecky

  Grandma, Tone, Ifs

  Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.8, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Hurt, Home, Grandmother

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• As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Trying

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• There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Kids, Grandchildren, Furniture

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• The Baby Boom has spawned an even bigger Grandma Boom. For every baby born, two women turn into grandmas.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Baby, Grandma, Two

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• I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

  Willard Scott

  Two, Privilege

  Willard Scott (2005). “If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First”, Hyperion

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• I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that was partly because I liked Ordnance Survey maps and when I used to go to my grandparents' house from Southampton Station one went past the headquarters of the Ordnance Survey.

  Jonathan Meades

  Children, Past, House

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

  Hank Johnson

  Country, Prejudice, Hardship

  "Time Is Right for Comprehensive Immigration Reform" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Survivor, Stories, Genocide

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• I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

  Yolanda Adams

  Thinking, Missing, Important

  "Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams, 'Day by Day'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 30, 2005.

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• The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Writing, Emotional, Grandfather

  "Best Selling Novelist Pens Tale of Grandparents Star-Crossed Romance". Interview with Julie A. Carlson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

  Laura Lippman

  Uncles, Two, Daddy

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

  Dan Buettner

  Home, Kids

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• It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.

  Cleveland Amory

  New York, Men, Boston

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• After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde Park, I had been coming there since I was a tyke.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Years, Hyde, Parks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If your grandparents are Mexican, you can relate through the roots of the show [Top Chef], through the food, through the traditions and find yourself and get to know yourself too.

  Ana Claudia Talancon

  Roots, Mexican, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Mean, Thinking

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection to this special island forever.

  Rolonda Watts

  Islands, Forever, Special

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• I really look to past generations. I think my grandparents, friends' grandparents, or even parents of my older friends grew up in a time when they used everything. There was a more mindful way of moving through life. You didn't waste.

  Elizabeth Rogers

  Moving, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.

  Gene Perret

  Couple, Grandma, Home

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Age

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Naps

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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