Grandparent Quotes - Page 12

• Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

  Miles Franklin

  Cheer, Men, Grandpa

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.66, ETT Imprint

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• I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.

  Angela Carter

  Grandmother, Together, Groups

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• My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Tombstone, Grandmother, People

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.

  Merle Shain

  Divorce, Views, Long

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• Grandpa did everything at his own pace, a speed that my sister and I referred to as 'when snails attack.' ... My grandparents' house was only about ten miles from ours, but the ride there would necessitate sandwiches packed for the trip, and several books to keep us occupied.

  Jenny Lawson

  Book, Grandpa, House

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are, to provide food, shelter, protection, advice and discipline, day in and day out, they can afford to be much more easy-going. The unexpected present, the extra outing, the little treat of a favourite meal prepared especially to delight the child and, above all, the time to listen to youthful outpourings, all make a grandmother a loved ally. It is hardly surprising that the bond between grandmother and grandchild is often stronger than that between parent and child.

  Miss Read

  Children, Grandmother, Discipline

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• The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

  Mother, Children, Father

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (2012). “From the River's Edge”, p.16, Living Justice Press

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• One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob.

  Mona Van Duyn

  Grandmother, Thinking, Hands

  Mona Van Duyn (1990). “Near changes: poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.

  Andy Rooney

  Technology, Thinking, Medicine

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• We don't want this globalised economic system which does us so much harm. Men and women have to be at the centre (of an economic system) as God wants, not money. The world has become an idolator of this god called money. To defend this economic culture, a throwaway culture has been installed. We throw away grandparents, and we throw away young people. We have to say no to his throwaway culture. We want a just system that helps everyone.

  Pope Francis

  Men, People, Doe

  "Pope attacks global economics for worshipping 'god of money'" by Philip Pullella, www.reuters.com. September 22, 2013.

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• You know when grandparents get older and they can't do things for themselves anymore? I'm gonna struggle with that. Because I hate depending on people to do anything for me.

  Blake Griffin

  Hate, Struggle, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• 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 one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Book, Fire, History

  Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.10, Penguin

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• I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

  Odette Annable

  Grandpa, Spy, Trying

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• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as wee one.

  Natascha McElhone

  Mother, Brother, Children

  "Natascha McElhone: my family values" by Victoria Lambert, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

  Jeff Ross

  Uncles, Sarcasm, Aunt

  "Comedy, Then and Now: Laughing With the Legends of Stand-Up From the 1800’s to 2010" by Steve North, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2010.

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• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  Dakota Fanning

  Player, Tennis, Athletic

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• If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

  Edith Konecky

  Grandma, Tone, Ifs

  Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.8, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Hurt, Home, Grandmother

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• As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Trying

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• Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

  Clayton Christensen

  Children, Mean, Men

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• Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

  Christian Lacroix

  Sister, Book, Our Generation

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• 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 their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

  Compay Segundo

  Rocks, Europe, Cuba

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• Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other “grownups” — grandparents, neighbors, teachers, ministers, employers, political leaders, and untold others who touch their lives directly and indirectly.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Children, Leader

  "It Takes a Village".

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• We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people.

  Roy Sesana

  Children, Thinking, People

  Acceptance Speech for The Right Livelihood Award, Stockholm, www.survivalinternational.org. December 2005.

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• There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Kids, Grandchildren, Furniture

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