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Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Black Cousins Elderly Ever Every Exists Grandparents Harlem Kind Legends Mecca Memory Musicals Preserved Ready Remembered Retrospect Scenes Square Texts Those Times Times Square Virtually

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All my mom's side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they're patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them.

~David Archuleta

Topics: Carry Conversations Grandparents Me Mom Patient Side Slowly Spanish Speak Speaks Them

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Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.

~David Ayer

Topics: Achievements Both Distorted Grandparents Offended Officers Personally Somebody Two War Were World World War Would

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I've got my wife. I've got my four kids. I've got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It's all you need. I'd rather have three really good friends than 20 good friends.

~David Beckham

Topics: Four Friends Good Good Friends Got Grandparents Kids Need Parents Rather Really Still Than Three Wife You

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My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with.

~David Beckham

Topics: Ever Grandparents Grew Jewish Mom Nobody Onto Parents Pushed Religion Something Up Us

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I stand here today - in the shadow of my parents' and grandparents' accomplishments - because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future.

~David Ige

Topics: Accomplishments Because Future Grandparents Here Look Parents Sacrifice Shadow Stand Today Willingness

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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.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Aunts Families Getting Grandparents Key Kids Lives Nature Need Our Our Lives Out Outside Parents People Play Role Start Uncles Young Young People

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My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Because Camp Childhood Childhood Memories Family Government Grandparents Include Interior Japan Just Just Because Memories Possessions Time Us Were

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We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandparents and five uncles, my family, all of us - on White Oaks Street by Magnolia Street near the railroad. Those were hard times, but I loved living there.

~Debbie Reynolds

Topics: Before Eventually Family Five Grandparents Had Hard Hard Times Home House Living Loved Near Oak Parents Park Railroad Shared Slept Street Those Times Uncles Us Were White

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I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Believe Grandparents Happened People I Believe I Believe That

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