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#grandparents

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He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#been #certain #certain extent #dead #endowed

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


#bosnian #brothers #brought #came #christian

Oh, Zoeybird, did I call your mother's husband a damn turd monkey outloud?' 'Yes, Grandma, you did.' She looked at me, her dark eyes sparkling. 'Good.


P.C. Cast


#chosen #funny-things-grandparents-say #house-of-night #turd-monkey #funny

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.


Christian Lacroix


#clothes #experienced #grandparents #i #looking

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.


Bear Grylls


#inspirational #inspirational

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.


Ken Buck


#about #college #concerned #country #economy

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


#come #continue #else #grandchildren #grandparents

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.


Jason Alexander


#avenue #bronx #davidson #grandparents #had

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.


Michael Bennett


#assets #bolsheviks #bridges #build #built

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.


Michael Bennett


#assets #balance #bridges #built #debt






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