Quotes with grandparents

  • I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
  • My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

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  • Alan Dundes 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
    American folklorist
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  • Bobby Davro As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Carole King Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe during World War II, or I might not have been born at all. Instead, I was born in 1942 in New York City.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bruce Coville I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Burgess Owens 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
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Blythe Danner Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Brett Ratner Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Bayard Rustin My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Bryan Greenberg My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to - Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang - was coming out of New York. I'm just into it.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Alex Haley Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Benjamin Watson Our loyalty is not to our grandparents, the traditions, our volleyball team, our friends; as believers, our loyalty is to Scripture.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Sam Levenson The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • Bill Cosby What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Claudette Colbert Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
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