Grandparents Quotes
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All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.
— Philip Kerr
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
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
As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.
— Bobby Davro
I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.
— Britt Ekland
The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.
— Mariella Frostrup
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
— Dominic Chianese
Grandparents are God's gifts to children.
— Bill Cosby
I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
— Donna Lynn Hope
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
My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.
— James Gray
The world is in me and you are not even in the world yet.
— Warren Eyster
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
— Sam Levenson
My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.
— Sarah Waters
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
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
— Penn Jillette
I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.
— Brian Friel
My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There
— Michael Chabon
My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.
— Chelsea Clinton
It's impossible for me to hear the words quadruple murder suicide without thinking of my grandparents.
— Anthony Jeselnik
They think of themselves as your grandparents,' he said. But call them whatever you like. James and Mary?
— Ann Cleeves
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
— Tabitha Soren
The move to Arcata was seen by my grandparents as a journey into forgetting.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
— Christian Lacroix
When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.
— Tyson Chandler
My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
— Tamra Davis
We don't know to be sad, the weight of our grandparents' love like a blanket with us beneath it, safe and warm.
— Jacqueline Woodson
I once walked in on my grandparents making love ... And that's why I don't eat raisins.
— Zach Galifianakis
There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.
— Robert Winston
All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.
— Hephzibah Menuhin
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
The wants of the grandparents has become the needs of the parents and the rights of the children.
— R.K. Koslowsky
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 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
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
— Anne Lamott
My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.
— Kacey Musgraves
My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.
— Bill Hader
I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.
— Joel Salatin
Look, if I were straight, you'd be grandparents before your time. You should be relieved that I'm gay. Aren't you grateful?
— Hayden Thorne
...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.]
— James Vescovi
When my children were young, one of the treats promised by their grandparents was a ride in Grandad's car.
— Laurie Graham
One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
— Abigail Washburn
My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.
— George Clooney
Parents do the best they can. But my parents are better grandparents than they were parents.
— Teri Hatcher
All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically.
— Honeysuckle Weeks
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
— Margaret Mead
If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
— Regina Brett
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
— Margaret Mead
Being Jewish means loving something that's gone. Your parents, your grandparents, the place they came from. Jerusalem itself. Creation.
— Michael Davidow
All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.
— Erin Cummings
My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with.
— David Beckham
Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay.
— Jamie-Lynn Sigler
I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
— Patricia Polacco
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'
— Allison Williams
You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.
— Mallory Ortberg
Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.
— James Patterson
The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax.
— Lauren Groff
The foundation that my parents and grandparents instilled in me is unyielding, especially the principle that teaches me to keep God first in all I do.
— Carlos Wallace
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
— Ralph Ellison
We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.
— Jimmy Carter
Proverbs 17:6 reminds grandparents, Children's children are a crown to the aged.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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
My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
— Robert Woodrow Wilson
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
I took the 'Lee' from my grandparents, who took care of me during the day while my mom was away working.
— Reggie Lee
My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.
— Brian McDermott
Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.
— Justin Trudeau
My grandparents came worked hard, and I believe they never regretted their decision to come here and make a new start.
— Samuel Alito
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.
— Ellen DeGeneres
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
Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.
— Suzanne La Follette
Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
— Dan Buettner
My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.
— Sebastian Coe
I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.
— Melanie Laurent
My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.
— Vincent Schiavelli
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a
different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity. — Charles J. Sykes
different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity. — Charles J. Sykes