My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey..
The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that th….
I have such respect for people who do non-fiction casting after settling on the grandparents we got for this. It is really hard to find people who ar….
I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in ….
I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not….
Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents..
I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight..
Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history..
I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn'….
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you..
Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet th….
We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents.
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them..
My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time..
Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred..
I would love to leave my children and grandchildren a nicer world than the one I am going to leave them. But bearing in mind that I was born in the w….
Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never goi….
I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did..
So many things we love are you!.
My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish..
My life is blessed; I have held my children's children..