Quotes About Generations

My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family.

My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before 1915: 'not so nice.' That's all I heard.

With each generation, women's ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn't mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.

Becoming a grandmother has felt like being a mother.

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

I love celebrating Mother's Day. Since I was a kid, it was a special day to tell my mother and grandmother how much I love them. Now that I'm a mom, it is a special day to spend with my children.

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander.

My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

My mother would have been so crazy about my grandchildren. She was a fabulous grandmother, and she would have been absolutely crazed as a great-grandmother. I miss that part of her.

Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.

My grandmother was very funny. It skipped a generation.

My grandmother was the genesis of my connection and passion to food.

I have children; I hope to be a grandmother one day.

There were just a lot of things that happened between my mother and I, and I thought it would be easier if I lived with my grandmother.

I'm a grandmother.

My father was born in 1925. He's pretty old. And his grandmother's cousin, I think, is Svante Arrhenius.

As much as I absolutely love football I know I'm gonna put everything I have into it - that I've got a family at home and my faith in Christ is more important to make sure that's healthy! That's something that like my dad and grandpa showed me.

My grandpa has always been the tech-savvy one of the family.

My grandpa and I, whenever we would go to Myrtle Beach, we couldn't wait to get there and have fried seafood.

I learn a lot from my dad and my grandpa, but I do things in a completely different way.

My grandpa is the funniest person in the world, straight up. But mostly everyone in my family groans when he is 'on.' I am his biggest fan.

My grandparents are amazing and most people love their grandparents. It's no different with me.