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  • I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

    Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”
  • Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

    Mother   Cousin   Uncles  
    Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.25, The Floating Press
  • A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

    Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony
  • I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

  • Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

    "Michael Moore Wisconsin Speech: America Is Not Broke" by Michael Moore, www.thedailybeast.com. March 7, 2011.
  • Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

    Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways
  • "You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

    Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways
  • A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

    Mother   Grandma   Names  
    William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed. With Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius and Writings, by N. Rowe”, p.590
  • It's one of those things that it's everything you think it is, but then again you have to - you need time to really process the entire situation. You stand out on that platform afterwards and you're looking at the ballpark and the fans and the W flags everywhere, and truthfully I do think about everybody, I think about the fans and their parents and their grandparents and great-grandparents and everything that's been going on here for a while. So you think that - I think about my coaching staff.

    Source: m.cubs.mlb.com
  • The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.

    "On Growing Up Tough (The Purple Lodge & The Hippies)". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1971.
  • My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

  • My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'

  • From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today.

    Eight   Boston   Land  
    Attributed to a 2007 Senate speech by Kathy Kiely, "Kennedy 'fashioned the modern day legal system of immigration'", abcnews.go.com.
  • All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.

  • Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents.

  • The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  • Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.

    Jay Kesler (1993). “Grandparenting: The Agony and the Ecstasy”, Vine Books
  • [On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.

  • Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

  • Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

    Reader's Digest, 1987.
  • With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.

    "Einstein's Dreams". Book by Alan Lightman, 1992.
  • We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

  • We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past

  • We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

  • What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

  • Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in keeping with the pedagogical principles of our great- grandparents, according to which children are viewed as crafty creatures, dominated by wicked drives, who invent stories and attack their innocent parents or desire them sexually. In reality, children tend to blame themselves for their parents' cruelty and to absolve the parents, whom they invariably love, of all responsibility.

    Alice Miller (2012). “The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness”, p.169, Anchor
  • An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

    Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways
  • When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

  • The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

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