Grandparent Quotes - Page 19

• Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history.

  Jim Conway

  Children, Giving, Unity

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• My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

  Jack White

  Mother, School, Age

  “Jack White: 'Is it fun to make music? I don't really know' - an in-depth Q&A from the vaults” by Barney Hoskyns, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2012.

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• How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say one thing: today, as Brazil and the Church around the world celebrate this feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, Grandparents Day is also being celebrated. How important grandparents are for family life, for passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society! How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogues, especially within the context of the family.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Passing On, Important

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• So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one

  Zack de la Rocha

  Men, People, Skins

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• I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

  Christian Lacroix

  Book, Clothes, Magazines

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• Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

  Jan Karon

  Raised

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• I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

  Anthony Foxx

  Mom, Born, Raised

  Anthony Foxx's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I just think I'm blessed. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I have a great grandmother that passed away at 104 and two grandparents that passed away at 97 and 95 and they never worried about protein. They just enjoyed life and that's what I'm doing.

  Herschel Walker

  Jesus, Blessed, Grandmother

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• Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

  Prince Harry

  Mother, Father, Differences

  "Lonely prince looking for love: Harry opens his heart on his search for a fairytale princess" by Victoria Murphy, www.mirror.co.uk. March 14, 2012.

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• In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.

  Iris Johansen

  Children, Giving Up, Memories

  Iris Johansen (2011). “An Eve Duncan Collection From Iris Johansen: Quicksand, Blood Game, Eight Days to Live, and Chasing the Night”, p.457, Macmillan

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• It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

  Karrie Webb

  Sports, Mom, Dad

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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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• In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandchildren, Past, Grandchildren And Grandparents

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Struggle, Illinois

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. March 27, 2004.

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• People who are interested with me have for sure gotten older over the years, for example, grandparents are coming up to me telling me they grew up watching me.

  Andre Agassi

  Years, People, Example

  "Andre Agassi, 20 Years Later". Interview with Frank Sun, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 26, 2015.

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• Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's really sad and frightening that something like that could have happened. But I don't really think of myself as Russian anymore. I didn't even live there for that long.

  Anton Yelchin

  Taken, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Diane Lane, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 8, 2009.

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• I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.

  Kellan Lutz

  Tears, Rolling, Barns

  Interview with Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I had such a great time doing commercials and things as a kid. My grandparents were on set with me all the time, and I loved that I got to hang out with them, so I will forever be grateful for that. But I just loved every minute of it.

  Mila Kunis

  Grateful, Kids, Forever

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Country, Identity, Culture

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• What does "success" mean to you? Was Mother Teresa a "success"? Was your favorite teacher a "success"? Were your parents, grandparents, your pastor, your best friends a "success"? Success is as personal as a fingerprint or DNA; you must define it for yourself.

  Bob Teague

  Mother, Teacher, Mean

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• Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. - From The Brooklyn Nine

  Alan Gratz

  Sports, Baseball, Daughter

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• My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.

  Kenneth Cranham

  Grandmother, Cooking, Grandfather

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