“I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.” ParentPerfectChildhoodGrandparentNo FearHave No FearParents And GrandparentsPerfect ParentsJust Love Me Author:Melanie Laurent
“When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white because of the searing heat that is rising from the desert, I think of my childhood, I think of my mother, my father, my grandparents; I think of the history that we hold there and it is beautiful to me. But it is both a blessing and a burden to be rooted in place. It's recognizing the pattern of things, almost feeling a place before you even see it. In Southern Utah, on the Colorado plateau where canyon walls rise upward like praying hands, that is a holy place to me.” ThinkingFeelingsHandsEyeBeautifulMotherFatherWhiteChildhoodMiddleWallPrayingHolyBlessingStandingPatternsBurdenDesertHeatRisingFlatsSouthernSaltRootedSwearGrandparentRecognizingPupilsCanyonsColoradoUtahHoly PlacesSouthern Utah Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you're confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, "How did you ever bring up me?"” ThinkingChildrenFactsSeemsRememberFacesYoungParentCommonChildhoodTerribleMirrorsShockHelplessGrandparentYoung ChildrenMirror Image Author:Sam Mendes
“Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.” CareMotherFatherLeftChildhoodGrewGrew UpTownsSolitaryGrandparentSmall TownInfantCounty Author:Pierce Brosnan
“I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.” LittlesBigsTreeChildhoodSixClimbsFarmsGrandparentWeepingMotorbikeWillow TreesWeeping Willows Author:Miranda Kerr
“I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.” PeopleTwoFeltChildhoodComfortableTradeMy TimeAttributesGrandparentAccusedAffinityOlder PeopleGreat GrandparentsBeing Old Author:Jon Meacham
“I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.” KnowsPersonsEnoughBodyPastFatherGrowsRealizingChildhoodBirthThis LifeTime TravelBackwardsGrandparentStairsPuffCommunes Book:Middlesex Source: Middlesex
“Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.” EndsParentChildhoodGrandparentGrandchildrenParents And GrandparentsGrandchildren And GrandparentsGrandparents From GrandchildrenHappy Grandparents DayBest Grandparents Book:Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother Source: Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother