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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

~Ed Smith

Topics: Any Experienced Grandparents Growing Growing Up Had Inferiority Knew Me Myself None Segregated Sense Social Stories Think Up Washington Whatsoever I Can

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Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools.

~Elijah Kelley

Topics: Aunts Bandwagon Experienced Frontier Georgia Grandparents Growing Growing Up Integrated Jump Last Only Place Schools Segregated Sort Uncles Up Whites

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My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Aunts Been Family Father Grandparents Grew Had Holocaust Knowing Mother Mother And Father Never Out Through Uncles Up Wiped

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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

Topics: About Brothers Building Courtship Early Grandfather Grandparents Grew Indian Lives Our Stories Territory Together Up

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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

Topics: About American Ask Documentation Family Grandparents Growing Growing Up Heritage Kid Mother Native Native American Never Often Our Talked Them Thought Up Would

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As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.

~Elliot Perlman

Topics: Australia Came Grandparents Had Jewish Jews Late Might Name Now Polish Russian Suggest Talking Were Who 1920S

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I remember the first time I pulled out of my driveway in my grandparents' Nissan Ultimate or Centra. I just remember getting in a car that smells like my grandparents, with both my parents standing on the lawn, so petrified. That was my car up until I was 18.

~Emily Ratajkowski

Topics: Both Both My Parents Car Driveway First First Time Getting Grandparents Just Lawn Like Out Parents Petrified Pulled Remember Smells Standing Time Ultimate Until Up I Remember

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Keeping physical items from the past is important - we keep old toys, grandparents' jewelry, yearbooks, dance recital programs - and we assign meaning to them. Those items become the memories, and that's a very healthy thing to do. The problems occur when we have too many of those sentimental items, and they start weighing us down.

~Emily V. Gordon

Topics: Assign Become Dance Down Grandparents Healthy Important Items Jewelry Keep Keeping Many Meaning Memories Occur Old Past Physical Problems Programs Recital Sentimental Start Them Thing Those Too Toys Us Very Weighing

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I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.

~Emir Kusturica

Topics: Am Brothers Brought Came Christian Eastern Family Grandparents Illustration Islam Lived Living Mixing Orthodox Other Poor Survive Three To Survive Took Turks Two Very Were I Am

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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

~Eric Clapton

Topics: Buying Ever First Get Got Grandparents Guitar Had Hang Me Nowhere Only Really Spanish Talked Tried I Tried

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