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My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.
I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
My grandparents were from Spain, and I had a Spanish passport.
I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.
My grandparents taught me about hard work, about fear of failure.
My grandparents had always helped look after me, they were always there.
I am a proud Italian American, raised by an Italian mother and Italian grandparents.
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.
My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
My dad got selected in the Indian Army, but he was not allowed to go, as my grandparents had reservations.
If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
My grandparents divorced, both of them, and then my mum and dad did. So it's like, divorce, divorce, divorce.
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country.
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
I believe in the value of life. I believe we must prepare our children for tomorrow with the family values of my grandparents.
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?
I've got Spanish grandparents and I've got a connection with Spain. But I consider myself English and I want to play for England.
There used to be grandparents who would say that if you were misbehaving the Peaky Blinders would get you, they were the bogeymen.
My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid.
My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with.
My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
My grandparents and my mom came from Cuba back in the '60s because they were fleeing from communism and Castro. I wouldn't be here otherwise.
Both my parents lived through a world war. My grandparents lived through two world wars. And they didn't go around saying, 'Look for happiness.'
I stand here today - in the shadow of my parents' and grandparents' accomplishments - because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future.
None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.
My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.
As a child growing up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, my connection to my Indian roots came from summer visits to New Delhi where my grandparents lived.
What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.
It is so important that British children are taught about the World Wars that their great grandparents fought in and lived through. It was a terrifying time.
The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.
I am naturally cautious so I guess I am a saver. I'm a firm believer in not borrowing money, which is a lesson passed down to me from my parents and grandparents.
It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
No one helped my grandparents when a con man stole our house, or when I needed help paying for a plane ticket to get to college. But my community always had my back.
I know from the stories of my grandparents and great-grandparents the real struggles and discrimination that Italian Americans faced when they first immigrated to America.
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.
No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
I've worked with Bernie before all of his other advisers have. We're best friends, and we've been colleagues, and now we're husband and wife, and grandparents together, and parents.
I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain.