Grandpa Quotes - Page 8

• Then I found another one, grandpa's poem. It turned out it had been written by Emily Brontë and it wasn't my grandfather's poem at all, although my response to it, I think, was pretty much the same, I just had the author wrong.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Grandfather, Found

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

  William Osler

  Grandma, Grandmother, Veins

  The Principles and Practice of Medicine p. 130. Appleton, New York (1892)

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

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Birthday, Hope, Heart

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

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• My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

  Louis Adamic

  Life, Fathers Day, Grandfather

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• ...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

  Louise Erdrich

  Weed, Rocks, Fishing

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.17, Odyssey Editions

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