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“Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.”

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Author:Esther Rolle

“Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation has removed some of the barriers to full participation in the American dream. And the next great barrier standing before our generation is the prohibition on marriage for same-sex couples”

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Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.”

Source: Grandparenting: The Agony and the Ecstasy

“My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.”

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Author:Eth Clifford

“We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.”

“Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.”

Source: Feeding the Eagles: Short Stories

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.”

“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.”

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”

“When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.”

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Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra

“Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost....May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.”

“When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.”

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Author:Michael King

“I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.”

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Book:Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”

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Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.”

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Author:Shari Arison

“Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.”

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Author:Amanda Lindhout

“My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.”

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Author:Colin Firth