Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.” — Aliki Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own, but I'm not interested in other people's.… — Angela Bowie Copy Share Image
And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on… — Brian Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you.… — Roy Sesana Copy Share Image
People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors. They may not be old… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own… — Joe Bastianich 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
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
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
The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to… — Pope Francis 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
What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
There were nine children in my fathers family and eight in my mothers. My grandparents did the best with what they had.… — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have… — Sam Bush Copy Share Image
My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you… — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents… — Dries van Noten 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
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
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
Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden… — Florence King Copy Share Image
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so… — Karrie Webb 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
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
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
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
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
