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" All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system. "

" All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically. "

Honeysuckle Weeks

" All my mom's side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they're patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them. "

David Archuleta

" Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. "

" As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you. "

" As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated. "

Douglas Alexander

" At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55. "

" At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic. "

" Because of 'Wasn't Expecting That,' I've had a lot of people come up to me and say how I've written their lives or their grandparents' lives. It means the world to me that I helped in the tiniest way. "

" Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay. "

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

" Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements. "

" But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. "

Jason Alexander

" Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that. "

" Even as a little girl, my mom never wanted me to watch BET, but when I was at my grandparents' house, and my older cousins were there and I could watch it, I was infatuated with the idea that I could one day be a DJ or the host of a show. "

" Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that often. "

" Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation. "

Christian Lacroix

" Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested. "

T. Berry Brazelton

" Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools. "

" Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind. "

Darryl Pinckney

" He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up. "

Jeffrey Eugenides

" I adored my grandparents and spent every weekend with Mama and Papa Wicks. They had seven children, so they needed a big house - and it seemed only logical to them to build into their house a pipe organ in a music room with a sixteen-foot ceiling. "

Frances Hesselbein

" 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 am second-generation American, and my grandparents are from Puerto Rico. "

Laurie Hernandez

" I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents. "

Deborah Eisenberg

" I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate. "

Richard Flanagan

" I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country. "

" I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines. "

Christian Lacroix

" I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them. "

Dominic Chianese

" I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy. "

Caroline Kennedy

" If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can. "

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