Quotes from over 467 grandparents Page 12 - ↑QUOTLR↑ (2023)

It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel story to launch the film for American audiences. Both of my grandfathers were WWII officers and I would be personally offended if someone misrepresented their origins.

I started my studies in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933.

My sister Bobbi and I were raised by my grandparents [...] We never had enough money and Bobbi and I started working at a young age to help the family survive. This hard work also included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painstaking work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.

Younger Cuban Americans who decide to go to the island always come back telling me that "this is not the country my grandparents told me about."

The wisdom of our parents, grandfathers, grandmothers, ancestors.

It seems that in every life we ​​must first reject that wisdom and then appreciate it.

The danger is to forget what we had.

The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren record grandparents' memories on tape for special occasions - there are no random stories that accompany everyday life, no common everyday life with moves, refugees, diasporas, divisions, job searches. Or ordinary everyday life full of holes of silence.

As my name might suggest, I am Jewish.

My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and if it wasn't for them we wouldn't be talking now.

No feudal privilege could ever compare, effortlessly, with that of a grandfather who bought and endowed his descendants with thousands of shares of General Motors or General Electric.

All my grandparents came from Lithuania to South Africa.

My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of this journey.

I'm a veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandfathers fought in World War II and retired as officers. One fought in the Pacific and the other in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and I heard stories, but the stories I heard weren't all “Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!" It was about personal cost and emotional cost.

I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandmothers told me: nobody is perfect, but most people are good. that people cannot be judged only by their worst or weakest moments. That harsh judgments make us all hypocrites. so much life just appears and lingers. that laughter is often the best and sometimes the only answer to pain.

We never knew our past. Your children are no more stupid than their grandparents.

We will probably live 20 years longer than our grandparents.

The question is, what will you do with those extra 20 years?

Being a grandparent is a whole new phase in your life.

When I was young, I spent a lot of time away from my parents.

I went hunting and fishing with my uncle, and sometimes we would go for weeks. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.

I got the whole point of European history, especially German history, dating back to the First World War, which really destroyed all the old values ​​and culture. My grandparents were quite rich, but they became quite poor living in a loft apartment.

My parents traveled a lot, so I was mostly raised by my grandparents.

My grandmother and I became very close in the kitchen. She is an amazing southern cook and I always helped her, whether it was cracking eggs or mixing green beans. It takes me back there.

There is something troubling about educating a child who can list the rules for surviving a zombie apocalypse with ease, but is embarrassed to list the tenets of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be a grandfather and a grandson at the same time, and in life you cannot be both at the same time.

Sometimes I'm a little shy to play the guitar.

There's something about it—I don't want to sound ungrateful—but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. Today you meet kids whose grandparents played in punk bands. It's very old and traditional, but you know, like the orchestra and the string section.

When I'm with my grandparents, I know that I literally don't have to do anything but relax, have fun, and enjoy the company of my family members.

Relationships with parents, grandparents, friends and siblings were important to me when I was young and have remained so throughout my life. Our relationships with other people shape and reflect who we are. These connections are endlessly fascinating to explore!

My grandparents are from Mexico so I grew up with great Mexican food.

No, like I said, my dad never played tennis.

His involvement in what I was doing with tennis, with my mom and my grandparents, wasn't really a part of my life.

Christmas was the only time of the year when my siblings would come home when my parents and grandparents would gather to eat my mother's roast turkey.

That's the advantage of being a grandfather - they can enjoy their children, while the parents have to be bad people. Grandparents can also be disruptive and rude to them.

I never really learned the value of money.

My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.

Grandparents can have a great influence on their grandchildren.

Their time is generally not as busy and hectic as their parents' time, so books can be opened and read, stories told... Children then gain a perspective on life that is not only rewarding, but can bring them security, peace and endurance.

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 with the words of the Holy Scriptures heal the broken hearts and bind up their wounds.

Family life is full of beautiful moments: rest, shared meals, walks in the park or in the countryside, visits to grandparents, the sick... But if there is no love, no joy, nothing is fun. Jesus always gives that love: He is its endless source. In mystery, he gives us his word and gives us the bread of life so that our joy will be complete.

In the presence of grandfather and grandson, past and future merge into the present.

Women hold the world. We take care of our children, and very often our parents, and sometimes our grandparents.

What if more and more parents, grandparents and children across the country joined forces to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks, family outdoor clubs or green gyms? What if this approach became the norm in every community?

The working class of England takes its eradication for granted.

Frustration is the cheery code that informs every fringe underclass: service jobs, dreams of celebrity, lottery winnings, pre-crisis lazy credit card poverty, it's all there, part of the history of English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

I was three years old. I was playing with my grandma and grandpa's dog in Las Vegas and he decided to pick me up by the head and run around the yard with me.

Children exist both in the world and in the family.

From the moment they are born, they depend on many other "adults"—grandparents, neighbors, teachers, clergy, employers, political leaders, and countless other people who directly and indirectly influence their lives.