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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.
A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight.
Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!
If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.
My grandparents came worked hard, and I believe they never regretted their decision to come here and make a new start.
There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
Proud parents to two children Grandparents to five more Who visit the "Harper Bakery" It's Gran's cooking they all adore
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.
My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.
My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.
So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one
Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.
My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.
Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.
I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.
I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax.
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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.
I love being a grandparent. I'm one of those you want to avoid - I pull out the iPhone and say, 'Hey, wanna see my camera roll?'
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.
We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?
We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.
When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.
My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.
All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.
We all know that I failed as a parent. I'll be a way better grandparent than I was a parent, and that's how I would rather leave that.
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.
My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'
My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!