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We're a really close family, and that was what my grandparents promoted.

~Deborah Joy Winans

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I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I've seen modeled in my family - my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.

~Deborah Raney

Topics: Anniversary Been Believe Celebrated Family Goals Grandparents Kind Marriages Modeled Parents Portray Precious Sacred Seen Vows Wedding Who Writer I Believe I Believe The

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I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school, 300 miles away from our home.

~Dennis Banks

Topics: Away Boarding Boarding School Father Four Grandparents Home Just Miles Most Mother Old Our Put School Stayed Taken Then Time Who Years

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I grew up on the south side of Chicago, most of that time on welfare. My mother and sister and I used to live with my grandparents and various cousins. We shared a two-bedroom tenement, and the three of us slept in one of those bedrooms and had a set of bunk beds.

~Deval Patrick

Topics: Bedrooms Beds Bunk Chicago Cousins Grandparents Grew Had Live Most Mother Set Shared Side Sister Slept South Those Three Time Up Us Used Various Welfare

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I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

~Dominic Chianese

Topics: Allow Always Enjoyed Father Grandparents Me Mother Mother And Father Much Stay Them Very Would

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When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Chicken Cooked Days Dear Dinners Eat Farm Grandfather Grandmother Grandparents Had Hen Hours Kate Lived Might Noon Setting Summers Three Twelve

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I grew up in the once segregated South. I experienced forced integration during my formative school years. I lived the sacrifices, burdens, and tears. I also lived the moments of understanding, of acknowledgment, of fellowship and success. I saw my parents and grandparents coming home beaten down - and some of my friends beaten up.

~Donna Brazile

Topics: Acknowledgment Also Beaten Burdens Coming Coming Home Down Experienced Fellowship Forced Formative Friends Grandparents Grew Home Integration Lived Moments Once Parents Sacrifices Saw School Segregated Some South Success Tears Understanding Up Years

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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

Topics: Came Change Colonies Each Each Generation Empire Generation Grandparents Like Our Our Generation Outdated Rather See Times Views Way World

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I was from a tiny little island, which I always say is one corn field away from a horror film: it was, like, isolated, and everybody knew everybody, and you go to school with the grandkids of the grandparents that your grandparents went to school with.

~Dove Cameron

Topics: Always Away Corn Everybody Field Film Go Grandkids Grandparents Horror Horror Film Island Isolated Knew Like Little Say School Tiny Which You Your

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When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age.

~Dries Van Noten

Topics: Academy Age Also Everyone Everything Everywhere Grandparents Great Inspiration Me Parents Royal Seek Studying Taught Very Were Young Young Age

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