Grandparents Quotes

• Once, I was out of the house 93 days in a year. I was missing grandparents' days at schools and kids' birthdays and Valentine's Day, not to mention the fact that when you're on the road, you can't get anything done. I had to learn to say 'No,' cut back on travel.

  

  Jerry Spinelli
  • Done
  • Kids
  • House

• I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Technology
  • Optimistic
  • Grandparents

• 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
  • Life
  • School
  • Family

• Let's set aside our political and ideological differences and take a moment to love our families, hug our children, parents and grandparents and through love and respect, strengthen the bonds that made us the greatest nation on Earth.

  

  James Lankford
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Political

• As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.

  

  Bobby Davro
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Grandparents

• My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Mom
  • Grandparents

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• I never got to know my grandparents, and I am envious of my friends who have a special relationship with theirs.

  

  Cressida Bonas
  • Friends
  • Relationship
  • Grandparents

• I'm kind of crazy with karma. I really believe that everything you do revisits you, so, I'm really adamant about the kids seeing the grandparents, so like, I can see my grandkids, you know what I mean?

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Crazy

• I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Home
  • Mean
  • Grandparent

• Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost....May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• 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
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Distance

• When we were kids, my favorite thing was coming to upstate New York where my family is from and hanging out with my grandparents' friends pre-Internet and them asking if we had stores or 'Do you have TV in Alaska?'

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Friends

• And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand - as do my parents and my grandparents and great-grandparents - we're used to things not going our way.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Black

• The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • People
  • Men
  • Parents

• There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

  

  Jan Karon
  • Family
  • Grandparents

• I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate it at the time; but I grew to love it as year after year I spent holidays there at my grandparents' cottage.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • Time
  • Grandparents

• I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.

  

  Brian Friel
  • Irish
  • Grandparents

• 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
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Grandparents

• 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
  • Up
  • School
  • Home

• I love, love, love my grandparents.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Grandparents

• I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Up
  • Day
  • Standup

• My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Country
  • Father
  • Grandparents

• 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
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Grandparents

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