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I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for. -- Joel Salatin
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? -- Justin Zackham
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. -- Jim Carrey
My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory. -- Elizabeth Warren
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As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated. -- Douglas Alexander
Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not. -- Willard Scott
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Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had adifferent word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity. -- Charles J. Sykes
Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents. -- Susan L. Taylor
Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls. -- Os Guinness
People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen. -- Dave Grohl
Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil. -- Horace
I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us. -- Gore Vidal
I say homes are for families, and you have to make sure you design for the family, not just one person: kids, your wife, your grandparents need to be able to use it. -- Tony Fadell
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain. -- Dan Aykroyd
We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home. -- Mona Simpson
Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well. -- Tim Berners-Lee
After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England. -- Rick Riordan
The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people. -- Roy Sesana
Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before. -- Merle Shain
I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, you take it for granted. Of course your parents love you. Of course Mrs. Hubert across the street loves you and your godmother loves you and your grandparents love you. -- Jessye Norman
We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did. -- Jane Fonda
Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. -- Bryan Clay
My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service. -- Sarah Waters
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like. -- James Patterson
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage. -- Becky G
Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay. -- Jamie-Lynn Sigler
As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet. -- Judy Biggert
Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would? -- Elizabeth Warren
The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes. -- Trent Lott
Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family. -- Samantha Isler
Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can. -- Grace Meng
We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us. -- Michael Bennett
I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century. -- Michael Bennett
We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents -- Pope Francis
We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents. -- Sam Wineburg
If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon bits of rock. -- Kristin Cashore
If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock. -- Kristin Cashore
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past -- Dmitri Volkogonov
The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it. -- Tad Williams
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family. -- Adam Braun
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. -- Jose Serrano

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