Quotes by Grandparent Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow! Abu Yahya al-Libi grandparent shining looks I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family. Adam Braun grandparent virtue educational The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes. Adriana Trigiani grandparent emotional writing I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it. Alan Alda grandparent giving art Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. Alan Dundes asian-culture grandparent children I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated. Alice Walker grandparent children people My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world. Alicia Keys grandparent dad mother There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them. Amity Shlaes zombie grandparent children I would love to leave my children and grandchildren a nicer world than the one I am going to leave them. But bearing in mind that I was born in the world of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, the legacy I leave them might not be as terrible as the legacy my parents and grandparents left to me. Amos Oz grandparent mind children Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves their dead parents and so on and so forth. There is a legacy of language and culture and religion. In some cases, family stories told by grandparents to little grandchildren. When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds or thousands of years earlier in time. Everybody comes from somewhere. Amos Oz grandparent grandchildren culture If your grandparents are Mexican, you can relate through the roots of the show [Top Chef], through the food, through the traditions and find yourself and get to know yourself too. Ana Claudia Talancon grandparent mexican roots People who are interested with me have for sure gotten older over the years, for example, grandparents are coming up to me telling me they grew up watching me. Andre Agassi grandparent people years I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was desperate to fit in and spoke English all the time. Trouble was, in my household it was a no-no to speak English because somehow it is disrespectful to call parents and grandparents "you" - impersonal pronouns are offensive in Vietnamese. Andrew Lam speak-english grandparent falling-in-love I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. Angela Carter grandparent grandmother together I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties. Anna Quindlen grandparent people thinking 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 surnames static grandparent I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. Anne Lamott grandparent church sometimes All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you. Anne Lamott grandparent relief kids So many things we love are you! Anne Morrow Lindbergh grandpa grandparent grandma Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. Anthony Brandt grandparent family change 1234567891011»