“My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.” PlayShowsSidesFiveBrotherDadMusicianInstrumentsMy DadMy BrotherGrandmotherMy GrandmotherShow BusinessCousinMy CousinPuerto RicoMarioRico Author:Irene Cara
“My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.” SchoolMotherFatherParentRoomsClassTeacherTaughtBrotherBelovedGrandmotherLatinMy GrandmotherSociologyLibrarianGeographyCountySchool TeachersKnobsPrecursorGeography Teachers Author:Sam Abell
“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.” HouseClassFourMiddleBrotherGrewMomGrew UpMy MomBeachMiddle ClassGrandmotherSurvivorHolocaustGrandfatherBedroomGrandparentMiamiRoommateGreat GrandmotherHolocaust SurvivorJewish FamilyMiami BeachBedroom House Author:Brett Ratner
“And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.” IfsChildrenTwoPerfectImagineBrotherRaisesRaisedGrandmotherHallsImagine ThatStrictEleanorTwo BrothersPerfect Child Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.” MenSaidMotherNightCertainHouseMorningBrotherConcernedCookingMovedIllCooksHatedGrandmotherRidingGrandfatherPaleMy GrandmotherDoing NothingMy GrandfatherLet Her GoPurdah Author:Indira Gandhi
“I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster that killed his brother-in-law, my grandmother's brother. And he never talked about his own brother's death to me. My mother told me about that and told me about the impact on her family. And that's part of what you hear in the first verse of "Miner's Prayer."” FirstsKidsLawMotherPrayerParticularBrotherImpactFingersDisasterInjuryGrandmotherGrandfatherVersesMy GrandmotherMy GrandfatherIn-lawsMinersBrother In Law Author:Dwight Yoakam
“Prince Harry is a great guy, very competitive; he's been playing polo all his life. Riding is in his blood. His grandmother loves horses, his grandfather played polo, his father played polo, his brother plays polo, so it's in his blood. He likes to play hard, we joke about it and it's great.” GuyFatherBrotherJokesHorseGrandmotherGrandfatherGreat Guy Author:Nacho Figueras
“When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94, which is a very long life in Cambodia, I saw how important it was that she was in a community with my sisters, brothers and all grandchildren were so involved in her life. I liked that experience so much more than visiting my sister-in-law's grandparents in a nursing home. It's about looking at a community through your window versus being part of a community that's alive, that is youthful and old and hungry and smelly and loud, where everything is vibrant and colorful.” LongImportantHomeAgeCommunityBrotherWindowHungryGrandmotherMatureMy SisterGrandparentGrandchildrenMy GrandmotherLong LifeNursingColorfulSmelly Author:Loung Ung