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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Church Grandparents Loved Sometimes

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I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

~Anthony Foxx

Topics: Born Grandparents Her Mom Raised Single Single Mom I Was Born

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My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

~Antony Sher

Topics: Africa Came Grandparents South South Africa

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I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

~Ariana Grande

Topics: Day Did Eight Every Every Day Grandparents Like Stand-Up

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I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

~Arthur Hertzberg

Topics: Anyone Anyone Else Come Continue Else Grandchildren Grandparents Hope Invite Listen Own Tell Up Way Were Where Will Write I Write

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When I was 12, I wrote a legit song - about having my heart broken, of course, because I was 12 years old going on 40. I sang the song for my mom, and she asked, 'Where did you get that song?' I told her I wrote it, and she said, 'Really?' She looked at my grandparents and just said, 'Oh, boy.'

~Ashley Mcbryde

Topics: About Asked Because Boy Broken Course Did Get Going Grandparents Having Heart Heart Broken Her Just Looked Mom Oh Old Really Said Sang She Song Where Wrote Years You

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I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.

~Audra Mcdonald

Topics: Age Arts Because California Came Classical Doing Family Grandparents High High School Life Musical Musical Theater My Life Nine Performing Performing Arts Piano Really School Started Studied Teachers Theater Were I Came

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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Barely Farms Grandparents Hard Live Living Living Wage Nearly Painful Parents Particularly People Southern Surrounded Very Wage Well Who Work Worked Working

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My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

~Bayard Rustin

Topics: Activism Being Black Did Fundamentally Gay Grandparents Instilled Matter Me Quaker Rather Rooted Spring Upbringing Values Were Who

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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

~Becky G

Topics: Converted Family Garage Grandparents Home Lost Moved Nine Old Our Six Us Years

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