A Quote by Deborah Eisenberg

I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.

Deborah Eisenberg

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Deborah Eisenberg
American - Writer
Born: November 20, 1945

All of my grandparents came to the United States from Italy during the early years of the 20th century. I believe that my grandparents came here to take advantage of the opportunities furnished by a growing country with an open society.

Samuel Alito

When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.

Andrew Holleran

My grandparents are amazing and most people love their grandparents. It's no different with me.

Anthony Johnson

Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.

Willard Scott

All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.

Hephzibah Menuhin

I believe in the value of life. I believe we must prepare our children for tomorrow with the family values of my grandparents.

Ryan Zinke

I suppose I would like to find out more about my grandparents because I knew them when I was too young to grasp that they were interesting people. They were my grandparents, source of treats.

Jeremy Hardy

As a young child, it became crystal clear to me that there were certain rights and privileges that other people had that my mother, my father, my grandparents, my great grandparents didn't have - that it was an ongoing struggle to realize the dream of the 14th and 15th Amendment.

John Lewis

My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.

Francesca Annis

In southern Italy, where my grandparents had lived, there were few opportunities. The society was static, with rigid social classes. Poor people, like my grandparents, had little chance to improve their lives, no matter their talents or willingness to work.

Samuel Alito

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.

Bill Cosby

Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.

James Cook

One of the great things my grandparents and grandparents taught me was, there are those who don't have your best interests at heart.

Wendell Pierce

You deliver 2,000 babies or better - 3,000 by that time. And that's, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then if you take grandparents or grandparents of siblings and aunts and uncles, you know, you get - a 100,000 votes outta that