Grandparent Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandmother, Hands, Voice

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Quality, Body, Way

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• All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.

  Hephzibah Menuhin

  Roots, People, Language

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• Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost dreadful, so absorbing, so stirring down to the deeps. For the tiny creature is so old and wise and sweet, and so fascinating in his sturdy common sense and clear intelligence; and his affection for me is a wonderful, exquisite thing, the sweetest flower that has bloomed for me in all my life through.

  Celia Thaxter

  Wise, Sweet, Flower

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “Letters of Celia Thaxter”

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• The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Memories, Lying, Grandchildren

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.

  Roseanne Barr

  Growing Up, Grandmother, Order

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.

  Jack Jason

  Television, Sign Language, Firsts

  "Meet Jack Jason: The Most Famous Interpreter in the World". Interview with Nataly Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."

  Mark Falcoff

  Country, Islands, Cuban

  "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

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• I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers. One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole "Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!" They were about the personal price and the emotional price.

  David Ayer

  War, Military, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Edward Kennedy

  Eight, Boston, Land

  Attributed to a 2007 Senate speech by Kathy Kiely, "Kennedy 'fashioned the modern day legal system of immigration'", abcnews.go.com.

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• I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?

  Gerald R. Ford

  Beautiful, Determination, Inspiration

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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 don`t think the Disney Channel gives us enough credit for the age range Lizzie McGuire actually has. College students come up to me, grandparents, famous people. It`s really funny.

  Hilary Duff

  College, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up, your whole photography collection could just go away. We can still look at printed photographs of our grandparents. We can physically hold them in our hands and look at it.

  Gus Van Sant

  Photography, Hands, Going Away

  Source: collider.com

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• After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Dad, Two

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Grandchildren, Done

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• We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.

  Robertson Davies

  Thinking, Numbers, Different

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.

  Jose Rizal

  Book, Writing, Hands

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