Quotes about grandparent
grandparent stories survivor
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves. Chris Bohjalian
grandparent very-happy feels
I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy. Caroline Kennedy
grandparent lithuania south-africa
My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. Antony Sher
grandparent joyful fathers-and-grandfathers
Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company. William Shakespeare
grandparent long waiting
I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while. Billy Crystal
grandparent raised
Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents. Jan Karon
grandparent people southern
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well. Barbara Kingsolver
grandparent firsts musician
I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that. Douglas Booth
grandparent static surnames
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from. Anne Enright
grandparent
So many things we love are you! Anne Morrow Lindbergh
grandparent church sometimes
I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. Anne Lamott
grandparent people fighter
People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen. Dave Grohl
grandparent grandfather church
My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.' Curtis Jackson
grandparent people normal
I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, 'Oh, what was that like? That must have been hard.' And you go: 'No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it? James McAvoy
grandparent temptation listening
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
grandparent tears rolling
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
grandparent phases whole
Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life. Kevin Whately
grandparent age accepting
A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect. Erma Bombeck
grandparent phrenology belief
I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us. Gore Vidal
grandparent long people
He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up. Jeffrey Eugenides
grandparent missing sound
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.
grandparent able reform
What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents. Jeb Hensarling
grandparent evil bears
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
grandparent deeds would-be
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. Horace Mann
grandparent aging fourth
We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents Pope Francis
grandparent goofy terrific
It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific. Mike Krzyzewski
grandparent return privilege
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
grandparent mexican mexico
My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food. M. Ward
grandparent quality body
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
grandparent want watches
If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time. Shooter Jennings
grandparent touching trying
When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor. I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior and I haven't moved one step forward since. Seth Rogen
grandparent childhood tree
I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow. Miranda Kerr
grandparent way tradition
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition. Penn Jillette