Best Grandparent Wisdom
304 Grandparent quotes by 268 unique authors
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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
— Anne Enright
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One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a…
— Charles Frazier
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I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.
— Ariana Grande
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My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an…
— Clare Bowen
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my…
— Faith Evans
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However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are…
— Bob Filner
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My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a…
— Colin Firth
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I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and…
— Jonny Greenwood
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My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad…
— Lianne La Havas
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
— Abbas Kiarostami
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We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?
— Justin Zackham
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We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.
— Sam Wineburg
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I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents,…
— Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
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It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to…
— Nancy Reagan
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Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog…
— Jason Gann
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I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding…
— Chaske Spencer
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Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.
— Charlie W Shedd
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You deliver 2,000 babies or better - 3,000 by that time. And that's, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then if you take…
— Tom Coburn
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Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you…
— George Clooney
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I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that…
— William J. Clinton
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I don`t think the Disney Channel gives us enough credit for the age range Lizzie McGuire actually has. College students come up to me, grandparents,…
— Hilary Duff
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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
— William Osler
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I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I…
— Gerald R. Ford
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I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World…
— David Ayer
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There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of…
— Joseph Bruchac
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