Grandparents Quotes (88 Quotes)


    And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents.


    Of all the names in telecom, only one has the history of ATT. ATT was the name of the phone company since we were kids, and in fact since our parents and our grandparents were kids. It would have been sad and a waste of all that historic brand value.

    And it's wonderful to follow Clair and Cliff and their lives being successful, doing what they always dreamt of doing and then to have these miracles which turn out to be so miraculous and then become grandparents. And to see one daughter become married to a fellow who's sort of a caretaker or a janitor, and watch another marry someone who already has a child it's wonderful to watch a family do that, and maintain.

    He's well liked by all of the kids, and he's done a good job for me. I'm happy for him. He wanted to go back to the Mainland because he wanted to be closer to his 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, 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.

    My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

    There's hardly anybody still alive from 1917, and those few who are really don't much remember that. So this is the first time this has happened in almost everybody's lifetime. And the impact has just been incredible. Baseball makes people think about their ancestors, their parents and their grandparents.

    My grandparents were from India only. My relations are all in India, my mother belongs to India but the circumstances took a different turn and it all changed. I still have my uncle, I still have my relations (in India), we don't have any relatives here.

    It is truly a great gift to be a part of a television classic that has brought so many people joy over 50 years. It is very satisfying to know that now three generations of the American public, grandparents, parents and children, can gather together and watch a show that they have grown up loving.

    According to the grandparents, the child was shaken, nervous, obviously confused. Because, how can a five year old child handle this any way. They have no idea how to handle this. So he just withdrew himself from the situation. But thanks to his grandparents, they were able to talk to him. They gave him water, flushed the soap out of his system, reassuring him. So he gradually came back around.

    The main focus is to give young fathers the tools to be more effective dads. Many young fathers leave the parenting to young mothers or to their grandparents.

    There are several reasons for this (low number). The people who were taught to garden from seed by their parents, grandparents or teachers are more likely to garden from seed later. It requires time. You can't just sow seeds and walk away. You have to nurture that seed. Many people are too busy to start from seed and they would prefer to purchase plants.

    Brian is in isolation. He's in a concrete cell and the only thing soft is a foam mattress. We have never talked to him about what happened. I know that he is extremely sorry for what he's putting us through and he asked us to remain good grandparents.

    They get their deposits from a variety of sources. Some of it is savings but it is becoming more apparent that parents and grandparents are taking a greater role in helping out. In the case of grandparents, we have seen them taking out equity release loan

    There's something about your child's child that just makes you want to spend money. From the parents point of view, its a wonderful thing, too, unless you run into a situation where the grandparents are buying things that you don't want.

    This is a very important program. For some people this is the only meal they get all day and sometimes our driver is the only person they see all day. Everybody has a mother or and a father or a grandparent and there is a chance that someday they are going to need Meals on Wheels.

    We think members of this community would be anxious to hear this kind of a case. Parents, grandparents, and anyone involved in the life of a child would not want a school engaging in this type of behavior.

    He used to drive a boat around the lake and pull us behind on inner tubes. He also read campers' mail, from mom and dad and from grandparents. And if someone's mom baked cookies, he would make the camper get up on a chair and jump up and down for them, without telling him why. All of this happened at lunch, in front of everybody.

    The riverboat cruise carried them from New Orleans to Memphis, and back, with stops at river ports along the way. It was very much a family thing, ... There were a lot of children on the trip, a lot with grandparents, a lot with parents, some with great-grandparents.

    These cards are really hard to mess up because we do laminate them. And we offer the discount for multiple cards that way both parents can carry a card and then give cards to other family members or friends such as grandparents, aunts and uncles.


    Mom and Dad never told them, ... Nobody ever taught them. And now there are so many young people who've not been taught by their parents, who didn't know anyway. Their grandparents may have known how to behave in the theater. But now we've got two generat

    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.




    The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given.

    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.

    I've seen how medals awarded in combat can help tell a child the story of a lost parent or grandparent. These medals can say that these men and women gave their lives in service to their neighbors and to their nation -- and that this nation is a grateful one, ... Today, we say on behalf of every American, thank you.

    We have grandparents, live-in lovers, step-parents, persons that are not even biologically related to children that are raising them. We need to have some understandings as to what standards we are going to use to determine which rights they have.



    As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

    Interest is overwhelming. The phones haven't stopped ringing. Catholics are joining in droves. We have protest leaders of all ages who are very devoted people priests, college students, parents, and grandparents. They're motivated because they realize that if our culture doesn't respect the rights of God, it won't respect its own leaders and fellow citizens.

    I left it on the Weather Channel the whole night. It was hard just trying to go to sleep. I was lying in bed trying to rest but my grandparents are at home and that's what was on my mind.


    Another great benefit of the program is that parents can designate a child's school, and grandparents, aunts and uncles can also participate. Even neighbors can select a local school and participate in the program.


    What this would allow is a youth under age 17 accompanied by an adult would not need a license and not need a hunter education card. Prior to taking a hunter education course, a grandparent, an uncle, or maybe a Big Brother or Big Sister could take a young person out and show them hunting and see if they like it.

    Many kids who are using this type of technology are plugging virtual rock concerts into their ears. Parents, grandparents and all other significant adults in our children's lives need to be aware of the risk and make sure the children are, too.


    Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.


    People are traveling together as small groups, either families with grandparents, parents and children or as social groups. We see a lot of family trips to Alaska and Hawaii. There is a definite focus, a big, big focus, on travel in the USA.

    The tragedy of teen driver crashes goes well beyond the teen driver and their teen passengers. These crashes also kill pedestrians and people in other vehicles that's somebody's mother, child, brother or grandparent.





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