I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so I was sort of partially Amish. When I go back there now I still get into that culture. I can drive a horse and buggy because they don't use cars. And, of course, there's no electricity. I respect them a lot. The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to like Little House on the Prairie days or something.
I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very little memory of him. All my other grandparents were dead by the time I was of any age to remember anything.
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.
Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.
People who are interested with me have for sure gotten older over the years, for example, grandparents are coming up to me telling me they grew up watching me.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
Proud parents to two children Grandparents to five more Who visit the "Harper Bakery" It's Gran's cooking they all adore
Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.
I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.
If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.
I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.
Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
After a year, it was great to get out of L. A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde Park, I had been coming there since I was a tyke.
As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.
Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.
I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [. . . ] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [. . . ] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.