Top Grandparent Quotes Collection
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There's definitely a voice and I always speak my work aloud. I have a lot of old people in my head, most of them dead now, but I always hear how they would say things, my grandparents and my neighbors.Collection: Grandparent
Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!Collection: Grandparent
My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.Collection: Grandparent
My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.Collection: Grandparent
Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.Collection: Grandparent
Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.Collection: Grandparent
Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.Collection: Grandparent
When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor, you know? I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior... And I haven't moved one step forward since.Collection: Grandparent
I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.Collection: Grandparent
A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect.Collection: Grandparent
I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.Collection: Grandparent
My parents through to my grandparents have seen and experienced all shades of life, the good and the bad, and they always faced every situation fearlessly. We share a unified bond which I also instil in my own family and it is with all of this that I am able to go out and do good work.Collection: Grandparent
Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.Collection: Grandparent
I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.Collection: Grandparent
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.Collection: Grandparent
We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparentsCollection: Grandparent
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.Collection: Grandparent
Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.Collection: Grandparent
Every third our fourth generation that comes along refuses to accept the way their parents and grandparents are living. They just don't want any part of it, and Millennials are doing that in a way. The Millennials, you talk to a lot of their parents, and they don't recognize 'em when they compare them to themselves.Collection: Grandparent
I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.Collection: Grandparent
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.Collection: Grandparent
I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, oh, what was that like? That must have been hard. And you go: No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?Collection: Grandparent
If we want to succeed, we need to recover our grandparents’ work ethic.Collection: Grandparent
Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.Collection: Grandparent
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.Collection: Grandparent