Jeremy Hardy Quotes

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 grandparents' lives come to you.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me.

My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.

I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded.

I wish my grandparents were around to see my children.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear stories about their parents when they were children.

I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade tortillas. Mexico opened my heart.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

Being a grandmother is probably the most important thing to me. I have two really rambunctious little ones, and I love spending time with them.

I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.

I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.

We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger.

My grandkids are everything to me. For me, family is all!

My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.