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I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
— Bruce Coville
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
Italians and Greeks have uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents as far as the eye can see.
— Joe Novella
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
It's often said when a baby is born so is a grandparent; well, for me it turned out that when I was born it was also the birth of a Ding Dong.
— Lisa A. Tortorello
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 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
It's impossible for me to hear the words quadruple murder suicide without thinking of my grandparents.
— Anthony Jeselnik
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
— Sam Levenson
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
My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
— Tamra Davis
Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.
— Aporva Kala
Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.
— Susan L. Taylor
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 come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.
— Richard Flanagan
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
— Claudette Colbert
Did you know that many non-organic foods today have up to 50% fewer vitamins and minerals than the food your grandparents ate?
— Lynda Goldman
I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
— Willard Scott
Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.
— Charlie W Shedd
Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.
— Amanda Lindhout
Grandparents ... can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history ...
— Jim Conway
I wish that I would have asked my grandparents more about their early lives in Italy when I had the chance to do so.
— Marianne Perry
The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.
— Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.
— W.C. Fields
When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Proud parents to two children
Grandparents to five more
Who visit the "Harper Bakery"
It's Gran's cooking they all adore — John Walter Bratton
Grandparents to five more
Who visit the "Harper Bakery"
It's Gran's cooking they all adore — John Walter Bratton
The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents.
— Christina Hendricks
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
— Gene Perret
My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.
— Vincent Schiavelli
All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.
— Erin Cummings
The wants of the grandparents has become the needs of the parents and the rights of the children.
— R.K. Koslowsky
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
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
We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.
— Jimmy Carter
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
Proverbs 17:6 reminds grandparents, Children's children are a crown to the aged.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
I took the 'Lee' from my grandparents, who took care of me during the day while my mom was away working.
— Reggie Lee
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
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
The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
— Abigail Washburn
When my children were young, one of the treats promised by their grandparents was a ride in Grandad's car.
— Laurie Graham
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
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
All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.
— Hephzibah Menuhin
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
— Anne Lamott
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
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Being Jewish means loving something that's gone. Your parents, your grandparents, the place they came from. Jerusalem itself. Creation.
— Michael Davidow