Grandparent Quotes - Page 6

• I didn't feel like I belonged with my mom. And I didn't feel like I belonged with my dad. Since they were separated, I kind of felt like I didn't belong anywhere. So my grandparents gave me that stability, gave me the feeling like I had something and I came from some place.

  Willie Herron

  Mom, Dad, Feelings

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.

  Willard Scott

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Willard Scott (2005). “If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First”, Hyperion

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• It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

  Ellen Goodman

  Memories, Grandpa, Video

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• I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

  Paula Cole

  Mother, Daughter, Feel Good

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• I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Writing, Grandchildren, Way

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• We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Pain, Joy, Age

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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  There is no death, only a change of worlds.

  Chief Seattle

  Change, Sympathy, Native American

  Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.25, University of Washington Press

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• Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

  Benjamin Spock

  Grandchildren

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2004). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 8th Edition”, p.441, Simon and Schuster

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• It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when we become grandparents we still tend to forget a whole lot of things we knew.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, Important, Facts

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• You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, Fall, Love You

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• That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

  Toby Stephens

  Children, Naughty, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.

  Tyson Chandler

  Relax, My Family, Members

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• I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

  Adam Braun

  Educational, Virtue, Enjoy

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• In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not believe this, but I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Believe, Ideas, Rivers

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• Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so books can be opened and read, stories can be told... Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Book, Profound

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• Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.

  Larry McMurtry

  Children, Sibling, Night

  Larry McMurtry (1999). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond”

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• However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.

  Bob Filner

  Children, Epidemics, Practice

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• It's amazing when you find a photo of your grandparents when they were young because it's black and white and the care that they put into their appearance back then was so grown up and specific to that era.

  Feist

  Black And White, Care, Eras

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2010.

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• It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.

  Kate Morton

  Children, Heart, Responsibility

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Family, Fashion, Uncles

  T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D. (1992). “TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE”

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• My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

  M. Ward

  Mexican, Mexico, Grew Up

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• No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

  Jimmy Connors

  Mom, Dad, Tennis

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• My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.

  George Clooney

  Summer, Cutting, Kentucky

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

  Anne Enright

  Surnames, Static, Persons

  "Author, author: Name that plume" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2008.

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• From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy.
  That's why most of the elderly wear pants with elastic waistbands. If they wear pants at all. This may explain why grandparents are in love with buying grand kids pajamas and bathrobes.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Kids, Elderly, Cozy

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.27, Penguin

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