We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history. — DeAndre Yedlin Copy Share Image
The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke. — Hephzibah Menuhin Copy Share Image
It is so important that British children are taught about the World Wars that their great grandparents fought in and lived through.… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
From a personal point of view, I'd like to interview my great-grandparents because I barely knew them, and I know next to… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
My great-grandparents have some beautiful sculptures which have come down the generations. They are priceless and whenever I look at them, I… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo." — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
“I’m world famous. Throughout the globe—north, south, east, and west—there are literally four people who know my name. It’s great to have… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else… — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
As a young child, it became crystal clear to me that there were certain rights and privileges that other people had that… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
It's one of those things that it's everything you think it is, but then again you have to - you need time… — Joe Maddon Copy Share Image
I just love Wisconsin. I'm a fourth-generation Wisconsinite,and my great grandparents were farmers. My grandfather delivered the mail. My mom was the… — Mary Burke Copy Share Image
Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“I tell my seven-year-old son about his remarkable forefathers. I leave out the bloody details. (For him these people are like knights,… — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
“I have no idea what my great-grandparents looked or sounded like, or the great-greats before them, back to caveman days. It's weird… — Allan Stratton Copy Share Image
I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
“Why do people have this thing about their roots?' Klinsman asked Karen when the laughter subsided. ‘Is it really that important?’ 'Only… — Ken McClure Copy Share Image
“Studying the history of our ancestors is instructive. I understand some of my parents’ struggles and sacrifices. I am acquainted with my… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish. — Brian McDermott Copy Share Image
I know very little about my great grandparents, who came through Ellis Island in the early twentieth century, settled in Baltimore, and… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for… — Jay Kesler Copy Share Image
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
My grandparents and great-grandparents were classic East European/Russian Jewry. Quasky was the name until Grandpa Quasky changed it in 1948. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
