Grandparents Quotes
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I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.
Audra McDonald
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My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.
Chelsea Clinton
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What interested me most about the Kennedys was the family situation. Somehow, they had created this family that lasted over time, they had a sense of connection to one another. Especially now, when people are spread all over the country and they don't see grandparents and parents, this family bonded together.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.
James Earl Jones
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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 Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.
Jordin Sparks
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I grew up in the once segregated South. I experienced forced integration during my formative school years. I lived the sacrifices, burdens, and tears. I also lived the moments of understanding, of acknowledgment, of fellowship and success. I saw my parents and grandparents coming home beaten down - and some of my friends beaten up.
Donna Brazile
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When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.
Lance Henriksen
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We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.
Martin O'Malley
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If you apologize to me, I look at it as an insult because my parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, like every other culture out there, did exactly what they needed to do. They worked hard, and they became part of the American way, and they earned the respect of Americans across the board. We need to do the same.
Burgess Owens
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In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was capable of.
Jacqueline Woodson
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My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
Lee Greenwood
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When comparing the time scales of genetic and cultural evolution, it is useful to bear in mind that we today - every one of us - can easily understand many ideas that were simply unthinkable by the geniuses in our grandparents' generation!
Daniel Dennett
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I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn't a plan.
Zoe Kravitz
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My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
Robert Woodrow Wilson
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The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.
Mariella Frostrup
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My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every day, and my grandfather, who attended university in Scotland, would smoke his pipe after dinner.
Kevin Kwan
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As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.
Bobby Davro
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My grandparents were from Spain, and I had a Spanish passport.
Ana de Armas
