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
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
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
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
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
Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this… — Hillary Scott 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
I've had five grandparents who have had Alzheimer's. I've been involved in raising money for two decades, so I thought, how could… — Jordan Banks Copy Share Image
I know that some poor immigrants from that era had unrealistic expectations and were disappointed, but I don't think my grandparents were… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents. There are so many of… — Chantelle Brown-Young Copy Share Image
I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee; I went to college in New Orleans before moving to New York City for graduate school.… — Bryant Terry 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
When you hear about people in the '50s getting married at 20, you're like, What were they thinking? My grandparents were together… — Justin Theroux 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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