Grandparents Quotes · Page 9

I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents.

— Winnie Harlow

I grew up in Bristol, R.I. I had grandparents and great-grandparents nearby, and because I was the only grandchild until I was…

— Nancy Dubuc

“My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There would be ample time for reproach in…

— Michael Chabon

I've worked with Bernie before all of his other advisers have. We're best friends, and we've been colleagues, and now we're husband…

— Jane O'Meara Sanders

The reason grandparents and grandchilden get along so well is that they have the same common enemy

— Sam Levenson

“If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake," Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, "I'm…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

If your grandparents are Mexican, you can relate through the roots of the show [Top Chef], through the food, through the traditions…

— Ana Claudia Talancon

Oftentimes when kids are left with their grandparents they're not agile enough to keep up with all of the things that they're…

— Loretta Devine

Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents…

— Iris Johansen

I used to stay with my grandparents in Juhu from the beginning and my sister lived with my parents. They both died…

— Sooraj Pancholi

I adored my grandparents and spent every weekend with Mama and Papa Wicks. They had seven children, so they needed a big…

— Frances Hesselbein

A grandparent will tell you, "Have fun!" and a parent will tell you, "Be safe, do a good job, make me proud."…

— Diane Lane

“She might not have enjoyed genealogy like they did, she wasn’t even sure who her great grandparents were (to this group’s horror)…

— Rebecca Patrick-Howard

I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question,…

— Zoe Sugg

When I was very small, when I was five or six, that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a…

— Denis Lawson

The Baby Boom has spawned an even bigger Grandma Boom. For every baby born, two women turn into grandmas.

— Mary Margaret McBride

The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

My grandparents came worked hard, and I believe they never regretted their decision to come here and make a new start.

— Samuel Alito

My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because…

— Rupert Friend

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are…

— Anne Enright

The people that does not care for its children or grandparents is a people that has not future. Because it doesn't have…

— Pope Francis

Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children…

— Sharon Lechter

We used to go up and see my grandparents in Helensburgh all the time and I still do to this day. It's…

— Scott McTominay

“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

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…

— Kacey Musgraves

My dad got selected in the Indian Army, but he was not allowed to go, as my grandparents had reservations.

— Sonu Sood

Our demographic has parents and grandparents and kids. But I love our fan base. It's awesome.

— Steve Harwell

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

— Tabitha Soren

My grandparents bowed to the Americans and sought to learn from them. My parents sought to be them.

— Alex Tizon

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

— Elizabeth Bishop

When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members'…

— Tyson Chandler

“Will you stop comparing me to your grandparents? Or I'm going to think there's something peculiar in your continued interest in sleeping…

— Alexis Hall

I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.

— Joel Salatin

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“Talk to grandparents and every elderly people you come across because later, they will talk and you will listen. Hear them, they…

— Bhavik Sarkhedi

I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear…

— Al Roker

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet...that's why we are blessed for having you.…

— Anonymous

The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents.

— Christina Hendricks

I was brought up in a very traditional way by my grandparents in an orthodox Tamil-Brahmin family.

— J. Jayalalithaa