Best Grandparents Wisdom
296 Grandparents quotes by 260 unique authors
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With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson…
— Jordin Sparks
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The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for…
— Steven Spielberg
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As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key…
— David Suzuki
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room.…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state,…
— Tom Vilsack
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There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.
— Robert Winston
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If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
— Regina Brett
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Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature…
— Henry B. Eyring
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Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment.…
— C.S. Lewis
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I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my…
— James Howe
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The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil…
— Jeaniene Frost
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If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for…
— Isabel Allende
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We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory…
— Robertson Davies
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After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack…
— Rick Riordan
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Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of…
— Margaret Mitchell
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But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together…
— Xiaolu Guo
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How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting…
— Studs Terkel
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The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most…
— Dave Barry
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Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then…
— Ozzy Osbourne
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If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.
— Kristin Cashore
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