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?
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.
Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern.
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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.
What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.
My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.
My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.
Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay.
If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.
My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.
The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given.
We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and...
If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon bits of rock.
My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.
