Grandparent Quotes - Page 3

• Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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  If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Motivational, Family

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Philip Pullman

  Growing Up, Moving, Pieces

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• My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.

  Eth Clifford

  Eye, Men, Sky

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• Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

  William Shakespeare

  Grandfather, Joyful, Company

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• If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

  Victor Hugo

  Grandmother, Men, Ifs

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• Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

  Eda LeShan

  Retirement, Attitude, Grandma

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• I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

  Billy Crystal

  Long, Grandpa, Waiting

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• And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Faith, Dream, Clothes

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• I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

  Ken Buck

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Grandma, Past, Rocks

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.259, Open Road Media

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• 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 the sun when it returned.

  Michael Dorris

  Sleep, Ideas, Grandfather

  Michael Dorris (1994). “Guests”

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• If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.

  William J. Clinton

  Commitment, Race, People

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• Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

  Lucretius

  Grandma, Space, Grandpa

  "De rerum natura".

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• Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.

  Florence King

  Children, Real, Grandma

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• Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

  Hal Boyle

  Baby, Grandma, Golf

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• Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Grandma, Years, Giving

  Hilaire Belloc (1958). “Letters”

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• Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.

  Gottfried Keller

  Grandma, Kids, Gossip

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• They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.

  Camara Laye

  Grandma, Heart, Grandmother

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• When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

  Jean Kerr

  Grandma, Grandmother, Thinking

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• We have become a grandmother.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

  Quoted in Times (London), 4 Mar. 1989

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• And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

  Jerry Garcia

  Mean, Kids, People

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• True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Believe, Years, Long

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• The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mean, Space, Pockets

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• Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

  William Feather

  Grandfather, Principles, Wells

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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