Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and ….

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparen….

My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them..

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition..

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is bein….

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good..

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards….

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship..

Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its j….

Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forge….

I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While t….

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what..

It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, y….

Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and pare….

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?.

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil..

Every house needs a grandmother in it..

Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what moti….

On the way to the delivery room, I almost changed my mind about having a baby. I wouldn't have found it so hard to go ahead with it if I had realized….

I worry that we have forgotten that the de-ideologized, de-politicized, uncontentious public space of the last 50 years as Europeans have experienced….

All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke..