If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.
- Isabel Allende
my grandpa and grandma aren't like me. They're more like sheets drying outside on a breezy day--they change directions without any fuss. But me, if I was a sheet and the wind blew me, I'd never stop flapping.
- Blue Balliett
My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
- Haruki Murakami
I memorized all of "John Carter" and "Tarzan," and sat on my grandparents' front lawn repeating the stories to anyone who would sit and listen. I would go out to that lawn on summer nights and reach up to the red light of Mars and say, "Take me home!" I yearned to fly away and land there in the strange dusts that blew over dead-sea bottoms toward the ancient cities.
- Ray Bradbury
...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.
- Ray Bradbury
I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, "No, but he and Ken got married last week." Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check.
- James Howe
And it's funny because it was my grandpa who painted it shut (window) in the first place, and he had a whole storage shed full of just about every tool you could imagine. He was one of those guys who thought he could fix anything, but it never worked out quite as well as he planned. He was more of a visionary than a nuts -and bolts kind of guy.
- Nicholas Sparks
Now Sam and Noelle were dead and I was about to lost my grandpa, and I knew I would never have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.
- Diane Chamberlain
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
- Dominic Chianese
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.
- Jimmy Connors
Talbot's eyes widened as he recognised Daniel. The four lost boys got out of the car and stood behind their alpha.
"So he's back?" Talbot asked.
"Yep." I couldn't stop smiling a bit and thinking of that song from the oldies station my Grandpa Kramer used to listen to. My boyfriend's back and you're gonna be in trouble...
- Bree Despain
Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.
- David Ebershoff
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
- Ralph Ellison
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
- Faith Evans
It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark hall on winter's nights. Madam, my example comes not from any book of romance. My grandparents walked and breathed; they kissed and quarreled. This I must have, and I will seek it with the point of my knife in a bad husband's heart if I can find it no other way.
- Roberta Gellis
My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
- Lee Greenwood
Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.
- Prince Harry
Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
- James Earl Jones
I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.
- James Earl Jones
What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.
- Tommy Lee Jones
I wish somebody would have told my grandpa about the Cold War, so he could have at least put on a jacket.
- Jarod Kintz
My grandpa died yesterday. I ought to know, because I shot him. So come, join me in the fight against patricide by killing your father's father.
- Jarod Kintz
One thing my grandpa taught me was never fall asleep while swimming. Or, rather, I'm sure he would have taught me that if he had the chance. (He drowned when he was a little boy.)
- Jarod Kintz
The wisest thing my grandpa ever said to me before he died was "Stop!" Thinking back, I don't know if he was talking to me or the car that ran him over. I prefer to think he was talking to the car, because how could he be so foolish to try to talk to me, when I was busy driving the car.
- Jarod Kintz
-You don't want to come out and celebrate with me tonight? What's more important than the fact that I just got a job?
-My grandpa just died.
-Oh, shit. I'm sorry, man.
-Oh, no, he's still alive. I was just giving you an example of something more important.
- Jarod Kintz
I believe it's always better to share the thing itself than the reason for sharing. Unless that thing happens to be something abstract, like a reason. Like my grandpa once muttered, "I don't need a reason to have a reason." Actually, I have no idea what he said since he was muttering.
- Jarod Kintz
My grandpa doesn't even have a grand to his name.
- Jarod Kintz
I think I just inhaled a cloud shaped like the ghost of my grandpa, and all I have to say is grandma smelled better.
- Jarod Kintz
I'm a Pisces, and people say that Pisces make the best the best lovers. That's because Pisces are fish, and it's like my grandpa always used to say, The next best thing to making love to a mermaid, is having sex with a fish.
- Jarod Kintz
I want to hold my grandpa in my arms and pet him while I fall asleep.
- Jarod Kintz
My grandpa never read the newspaper. Not because he was particularly optimistic, but because he was illiterate. He taught me to read by watching TV.
- Jarod Kintz
The best thing my grandpa ever said to me was, "Gladys, bring me some more damn soup." Well, maybe he wasn't talking to me, but it was still good to hear he was a romantic.
- Jarod Kintz
On his deathbed, my grandpa told me three things to remember for after he died. First he said, "You can't own a cat. Ever." Second he told me, "Friendly boys make friendly friends." Finally he said, "You were adopted, just like your father before you, and his father before him." "So," I said, "you were adopted?" "Of course not!" he replied. "Your father's not my son, just like he's not your father." And to this day I am still confused. I have no idea why I can't own a cat.
- Jarod Kintz
Thanks to my grandpa, I can go to France and not be visiting Germany. He single-handedly won WWII (he only has one hand).
- Jarod Kintz
The best birthday present I ever got from my grandpa was a skinny black tie. It didn't come in a bag, a box, or even rolled up in tissue paper. It came wrapped in wisdom. As soon as he gave it to me he said, A tie would make a stronger impression on your boss if you used it as a blindfold and kidnapped him. That's why I bought you a black one.
- Jarod Kintz
I love how babies look like old people. I saw a baby the other day that looked exactly like my grandpa, only taller.
- Jarod Kintz
I'd like to write a screenplay about my grandpa, and I'd like my future grandson to play the part. Talk about a mindfuck!
- Jarod Kintz
My grandpa passed a few days ago. But I'm not sad. He was only driving 20 miles an hour, so I'm sure I'll catch up to him.
- Jarod Kintz
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
- Christian Lacroix
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
There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.
- Cheryl Ladd
I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
- Anne Lamott
No one said a word; it was as if they were waiting for me to retract my question. Jan's hand found mine and held it.
"What the hell is this? A wake?" My grandpa came out of the house carrying a tray of buns.
- Bentley Little
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.
- George Lopez
Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.
- Mike Love
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.
- Jon Meacham
My grandpa was a preacher.
- Dolly Parton
I called up my grandparents who I hadn't spoken to for over three years. I called my mother, who I had recently told to stop calling lest I contact the police. I sat with them all and it was normal and fun and good. I'm even ready - maybe - to speak to my father. Superman doesn't get upset at the people who shoot bullets at him. I get why, now.
- Harvey Pekar
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.
- Philippe Perrin
I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?
- Brad Pitt
When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
- Natalie Portman
My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.
- Vincent Schiavelli
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 Schlossberg
And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future.
- Brian Schweitzer
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
- Ed Smith
If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents' lives seem to me organic and ours what? hydroponic? he would ask in derision what I meant. Define my terms. How do you measure the organic residue of a man or a generation? This is all metaphor. If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist.
- Wallace Stegner
You know Morse Code?" Avian asked as we walked up.
"My grandpa thought it was a fun game when I was little," West said as he rubbed his eyes again. "That's a scientist's version of fun for you.
- Keary Taylor
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.
- Karrie Webb
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.
- Forest Whitaker
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'
- Allison Williams
- Isabel Allende
my grandpa and grandma aren't like me. They're more like sheets drying outside on a breezy day--they change directions without any fuss. But me, if I was a sheet and the wind blew me, I'd never stop flapping.
- Blue Balliett
My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
- Haruki Murakami
I memorized all of "John Carter" and "Tarzan," and sat on my grandparents' front lawn repeating the stories to anyone who would sit and listen. I would go out to that lawn on summer nights and reach up to the red light of Mars and say, "Take me home!" I yearned to fly away and land there in the strange dusts that blew over dead-sea bottoms toward the ancient cities.
- Ray Bradbury
...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.
- Ray Bradbury
I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, "No, but he and Ken got married last week." Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check.
- James Howe
And it's funny because it was my grandpa who painted it shut (window) in the first place, and he had a whole storage shed full of just about every tool you could imagine. He was one of those guys who thought he could fix anything, but it never worked out quite as well as he planned. He was more of a visionary than a nuts -and bolts kind of guy.
- Nicholas Sparks
Now Sam and Noelle were dead and I was about to lost my grandpa, and I knew I would never have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.
- Diane Chamberlain
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
- Dominic Chianese
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.
- Jimmy Connors
Talbot's eyes widened as he recognised Daniel. The four lost boys got out of the car and stood behind their alpha.
"So he's back?" Talbot asked.
"Yep." I couldn't stop smiling a bit and thinking of that song from the oldies station my Grandpa Kramer used to listen to. My boyfriend's back and you're gonna be in trouble...
- Bree Despain
Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.
- David Ebershoff
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
- Ralph Ellison
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
- Faith Evans
It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark hall on winter's nights. Madam, my example comes not from any book of romance. My grandparents walked and breathed; they kissed and quarreled. This I must have, and I will seek it with the point of my knife in a bad husband's heart if I can find it no other way.
- Roberta Gellis
My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
- Lee Greenwood
Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.
- Prince Harry
Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
- James Earl Jones
I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.
- James Earl Jones
What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.
- Tommy Lee Jones
I wish somebody would have told my grandpa about the Cold War, so he could have at least put on a jacket.
- Jarod Kintz
My grandpa died yesterday. I ought to know, because I shot him. So come, join me in the fight against patricide by killing your father's father.
- Jarod Kintz
One thing my grandpa taught me was never fall asleep while swimming. Or, rather, I'm sure he would have taught me that if he had the chance. (He drowned when he was a little boy.)
- Jarod Kintz
The wisest thing my grandpa ever said to me before he died was "Stop!" Thinking back, I don't know if he was talking to me or the car that ran him over. I prefer to think he was talking to the car, because how could he be so foolish to try to talk to me, when I was busy driving the car.
- Jarod Kintz
-You don't want to come out and celebrate with me tonight? What's more important than the fact that I just got a job?
-My grandpa just died.
-Oh, shit. I'm sorry, man.
-Oh, no, he's still alive. I was just giving you an example of something more important.
- Jarod Kintz
I believe it's always better to share the thing itself than the reason for sharing. Unless that thing happens to be something abstract, like a reason. Like my grandpa once muttered, "I don't need a reason to have a reason." Actually, I have no idea what he said since he was muttering.
- Jarod Kintz
My grandpa doesn't even have a grand to his name.
- Jarod Kintz
I think I just inhaled a cloud shaped like the ghost of my grandpa, and all I have to say is grandma smelled better.
- Jarod Kintz
I'm a Pisces, and people say that Pisces make the best the best lovers. That's because Pisces are fish, and it's like my grandpa always used to say, The next best thing to making love to a mermaid, is having sex with a fish.
- Jarod Kintz
I want to hold my grandpa in my arms and pet him while I fall asleep.
- Jarod Kintz
My grandpa never read the newspaper. Not because he was particularly optimistic, but because he was illiterate. He taught me to read by watching TV.
- Jarod Kintz
The best thing my grandpa ever said to me was, "Gladys, bring me some more damn soup." Well, maybe he wasn't talking to me, but it was still good to hear he was a romantic.
- Jarod Kintz
On his deathbed, my grandpa told me three things to remember for after he died. First he said, "You can't own a cat. Ever." Second he told me, "Friendly boys make friendly friends." Finally he said, "You were adopted, just like your father before you, and his father before him." "So," I said, "you were adopted?" "Of course not!" he replied. "Your father's not my son, just like he's not your father." And to this day I am still confused. I have no idea why I can't own a cat.
- Jarod Kintz
Thanks to my grandpa, I can go to France and not be visiting Germany. He single-handedly won WWII (he only has one hand).
- Jarod Kintz
The best birthday present I ever got from my grandpa was a skinny black tie. It didn't come in a bag, a box, or even rolled up in tissue paper. It came wrapped in wisdom. As soon as he gave it to me he said, A tie would make a stronger impression on your boss if you used it as a blindfold and kidnapped him. That's why I bought you a black one.
- Jarod Kintz
I love how babies look like old people. I saw a baby the other day that looked exactly like my grandpa, only taller.
- Jarod Kintz
I'd like to write a screenplay about my grandpa, and I'd like my future grandson to play the part. Talk about a mindfuck!
- Jarod Kintz
My grandpa passed a few days ago. But I'm not sad. He was only driving 20 miles an hour, so I'm sure I'll catch up to him.
- Jarod Kintz
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
- Christian Lacroix
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
There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.
- Cheryl Ladd
I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
- Anne Lamott
No one said a word; it was as if they were waiting for me to retract my question. Jan's hand found mine and held it.
"What the hell is this? A wake?" My grandpa came out of the house carrying a tray of buns.
- Bentley Little
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.
- George Lopez
Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.
- Mike Love
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.
- Jon Meacham
My grandpa was a preacher.
- Dolly Parton
I called up my grandparents who I hadn't spoken to for over three years. I called my mother, who I had recently told to stop calling lest I contact the police. I sat with them all and it was normal and fun and good. I'm even ready - maybe - to speak to my father. Superman doesn't get upset at the people who shoot bullets at him. I get why, now.
- Harvey Pekar
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.
- Philippe Perrin
I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?
- Brad Pitt
When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
- Natalie Portman
My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.
- Vincent Schiavelli
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 Schlossberg
And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future.
- Brian Schweitzer
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
- Ed Smith
If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents' lives seem to me organic and ours what? hydroponic? he would ask in derision what I meant. Define my terms. How do you measure the organic residue of a man or a generation? This is all metaphor. If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist.
- Wallace Stegner
You know Morse Code?" Avian asked as we walked up.
"My grandpa thought it was a fun game when I was little," West said as he rubbed his eyes again. "That's a scientist's version of fun for you.
- Keary Taylor
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.
- Karrie Webb
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.
- Forest Whitaker
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'
- Allison Williams
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