Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Caroline Kennedy

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.

Antony Sher

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

William Shakespeare

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

Billy Crystal

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

Jan Karon

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

Douglas Booth

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

Anne Enright

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

Janet Yellen

This suggests a presumption that the rate (now at 3.75 percent) will need to be raised further,

Justin Trudeau

My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

Dinaw Mengestu

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

Glenn Dickman

We are a community-minded family. We were raised to give back.

Richard Montanari

I was raised Catholic at a time when Vatican II was just taking hold.

Tom Brady

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Steven Calabresi

I and one other person raised our hands.

Robert Milmore

If another bidder comes in the stakes could be raised on TWA to where AMR doesn't think it's worth it.