Grandparent Quotes - Page 18

• Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.

  James Cook

  Attention, Rich, Poor

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• Grandparents are God's gifts to children.

  Bill Cosby

  Children

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• Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

  Brett Ratner

  Mom, Beach, Brother

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• My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I took control of the vineyard, hired a local winemaker, and bought another winery in 1996. We had our first commercial vintage in 1998.

  Joe Bastianich

  Wine, Vintage, Vineyards

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• Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Mother, Father, Childhood

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• When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.

  Lance Henriksen

  Distance, Kids, Covering

  Source: collider.com

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• It's impossible for me to hear the words quadruple murder suicide without thinking of my grandparents.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Suicide, Thinking, Impossible

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2010

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• I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

  Alan Alda

  Art, Giving, Lucky

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• I was just thinking about how my grandparents, who raised me, would be considered "white trash," whatever that means - mostly for being racists, I'd say. And how, as a child, I wanted to be like them, and identified with them culturally.

  Shane McCrae

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some have become more critical than others; for example, the submarines. And that's the Ohio Class submarine that needs to be modernized. The air component also needs to be modernized. The B-52, as someone earlier pointed out, is an outdated model that was flown by the grandparents of people that are flying it now. And we need a serious modernization program as well on our silo-launched missiles. All three are critical for the defense of the country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Air, Ohio

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Kids, Museums

  "The essential Rosanne Cash". Interview with Bob Gendron, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 16, 2012.

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• There are a lot of voices inside of us. We have the voices of our parents, our grandparents, our society, our bosses, our own should's and shouldn'ts, and our self-worth is in us, controlling us a lot. When we can get past all of those, and get to the deep, core part of us, there's a voice within our soul that I believe is connected to our Divine or Higher Self. That voice within is there to guide us through all aspects of our lives.

  Echo Bodine

  Believe, Self Worth, Past

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can.

  Grace Meng

  Queens, Children, Diversity

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• Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

  Horace

  Evil, Bears, Birth

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• I was homeschooled on the road for kindergarten, then went to elementary school and a private Christian school while living with my grandparents until I graduated, and I loved it. But my parents were gone a lot.

  Hillary Scott

  Christian, School, Gone

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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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• You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Children, Closeness

  "Permission Slip". Live Chat, www.slate.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Law, People, Legacy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.

  Rose Leslie

  Lying, Grandmother, Together

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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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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• Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Giving Up, Believe

  "Michael Moore Wisconsin Speech: America Is Not Broke" by Michael Moore, www.thedailybeast.com. March 7, 2011.

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• And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents

  Philippe Perrin

  Motivational, Strong, Kids

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• I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress.

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka

  Nice, Drawing, Car

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• All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

  Erin Cummings

  Mom, School, Nurse

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Children, World, Care

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