Grandparent famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!
-- Abu Yahya al-Libi -
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
-- Adam Braun -
But 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 -
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 -
There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.
-- Amity Shlaes -
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.
-- Angela Carter -
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 -
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
-- Anne Lamott -
I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.
-- Anthony Foxx -
My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.
-- Antony Sher -
I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.
-- Ariana Grande -
I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
-- Arthur Hertzberg -
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 -
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
-- Bayard Rustin -
Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
-- Betty Ford -
My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
-- Billy Crystal -
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 -
Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.
-- Blythe Danner -
And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future.
-- Brian Schweitzer -
I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.
-- Britt Ekland -
They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.
-- Camara Laye -
The best advice I've ever been given is being handed a Bible. That's the blueprint for marriage that we go by, and that's what our marriage is grounded in. We also have other married couples who are examples in our lives. My parents have been married over 40 years, and both sets of grandparents for over 65 years. When you see couples in long-term relationships and you see them go through good times and bad times, you realize it's about being committed enough and loving your partner enough to hang in there regardless.
-- Candace Cameron -
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 -
One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.
-- Charles Frazier -
Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.
-- Charlie W Shedd -
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
-- Chris Bohjalian -
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines
-- Christian Lacroix -
My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.
-- Clare Bowen -
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
-- Claudette Colbert -
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 -
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
-- Colin Firth -
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 -
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 -
Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
-- Dan Buettner -
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past
-- Dmitri Volkogonov -
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
-- Dominic Chianese -
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
-- Don Marquis -
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
-- Doug Larson -
When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me at a very young age.
-- Dries van Noten -
Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.
-- Eda LeShan -
If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.
-- Edith Konecky -
to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
-- Elizabeth Goudge -
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
-- Erica Jong -
Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.
-- Esther Rolle -
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
-- Faith Evans -
My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.
-- Forest Whitaker -
Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.
-- Gail Collins -
I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and "wisdom" and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.
-- Gary Gygax -
Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.
-- George Clooney -
I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.
-- George Lopez -
Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.
-- Gottfried Keller -
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 -
All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.
-- Hephzibah Menuhin -
My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook, and I would always help her - whether it was cracking eggs or stirring the green beans. It takes me back there.
-- Hillary Scott -
From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy. That's why most of the elderly wear pants with elastic waistbands. If they wear pants at all. This may explain why grandparents are in love with buying grand kids pajamas and bathrobes.
-- Holly Goldberg Sloan -
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.
-- Isabel Allende -
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 -
I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.
-- James Earl Jones -
I don't really... go to 'the opening of an envelope.' I don't really turn up to all the events, you know what I mean? If I'm involved, I'll go, and if there's a good friend who needs support, I'll go, but otherwise... I don't go. I'm probably just a bit like my grandparents; I like staying in.
-- James McAvoy -
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 -
The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.
-- James Robertson -
My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'
-- Jamie Foxx -
Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
-- Jan Karon -
I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.
-- Jared Taylor -
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 -
Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.
-- Jay Kesler -
When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.
-- Jean Kerr -
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 -
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 -
Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.
-- Jhumpa Lahiri -
Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history...
-- Jim Conway -
No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
-- Jimmy Connors -
My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'
-- Jo Nesbo -
Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.
-- John Wooden -
I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
-- Jon Meacham -
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 -
There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied.
-- Joseph Bruchac -
When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
-- Judith Ellen Levy -
As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.
-- Judy Biggert -
We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?
-- Justin Zackham -
Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.
-- Kevin Whately -
Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.
-- Kid Rock -
If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.
-- Kristin Cashore -
My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.
-- Kyle Chandler -
My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
-- Lee Greenwood -
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 -
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
-- Lewis Mumford -
My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.
-- Lianne La Havas -
I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.
-- Lisel Mueller -
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
-- Lois Wyse -
Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.
-- Lois Wyse -
In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
-- Lucretius -
My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
-- M. Ward -
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
-- Margaret Mead -
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
-- Margaret Mead -
Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother.
-- Margaret Whitlam -
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
-- Mario Vargas Llosa
