The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
On the way to the delivery room, I almost changed my mind about having a baby. I wouldn't have found it so… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the… — Sue Lowden Copy Share Image
I have such respect for people who do non-fiction casting after settling on the grandparents we got for this. It is really… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
What interested me most about the Kennedys was the family situation. Somehow, they had created this family that lasted over time, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should… — Esther Rolle Copy Share Image
My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I was homeschooled on the road for kindergarten, then went to elementary school and a private Christian school while living with my… — Hillary Scott Copy Share Image
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative. — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection… — Rolonda Watts Copy Share Image
It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people,… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I've got my wife. I've got my four kids. I've got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It's all you… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is… — Rose Leslie Copy Share Image
My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one… — Max Bemis Copy Share Image
There's definitely a voice and I always speak my work aloud. I have a lot of old people in my head, most… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from… — Jack Jason Copy Share Image
I feel the grandparent-grandchild relationship is one of the most innocent and selfless ones. It is all about pure love and affection. — Mohan Joshi Copy Share Image
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