Top 798 Grandparents Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents... and we've taken that inheritance and squandered it.
My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.
My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
My grandparents and my mom came from Cuba back in the '60s because they were fleeing from communism and Castro. I wouldn't be here otherwise.
I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.
The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.
When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.
Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
My great-grandparents came from Poland. Interestingly enough, they were named Adam and Eve. But I do not believe they are the original.
In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was capable of.
We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.
I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
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.
My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.
My grandparents came worked hard, and I believe they never regretted their decision to come here and make a new start.
My grandparents would have big, long arguments that were entertaining and that's where I first noticed, and was thrilled by, political discourse.
Growing up, some of my best memories are visiting my grandparents who had a house on a lake not too far from Waukesha.
My grandparents and my parents came over from Cuba with nothing to their name just for a chance of freedom and opportunity.
If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
My dad got selected in the Indian Army, but he was not allowed to go, as my grandparents had reservations.
My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.
In our culture, when the parents are having a tough time, the grandparents take care of the kids.
With my grandparents, it was almost like a hippie lifestyle. I could do whatever I wanted. If I didn't want to do my homework, I didn't do it.
My parents are proud of my achievements. They send articles to my grandparents in India. Everyone's happy I'm doing something I want to do.
I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.
I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.
I grew up in a little town between Bath and Bristol with my parents and grandparents in the same house. It was rural and idyllic.
I stand here today - in the shadow of my parents' and grandparents' accomplishments - because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future.
My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody.
My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that often.
My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.
There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.
Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.
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.
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.
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
I was brought up in a very traditional way by my grandparents in an orthodox Tamil-Brahmin family.
The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents.
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.
We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids.
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.
My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.
We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.
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.
My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.
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.
'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.
As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.
Oftentimes when kids are left with their grandparents they're not agile enough to keep up with all of the things that they're going through.
I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.
My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.
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.
