![]() ![]() “My grandfather was a giant of a man … When he walked, the earth shook. “Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that’s what my grandma taught me.” “Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.” “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.” Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.” “Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.” The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.” “Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.” “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.” “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. “A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.” “If your baby is ‘beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time,’ you’re the grandma.” ![]() “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.” “Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.” “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature / But beautiful old people are works of art.” You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.” “The best babysitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. “It’s so important to give your children and grandchildren inspiration … Teach them to notice, to pay attention, to appreciate, and to be inquisitive. “Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins.” “To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.” “Learning is ever young, even in old age.” “Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.” “Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.” “A good man will have wealth to leave his grandchildren.” “Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.” “Those who have no grandparents lose very much.” ![]() “Children brought up by their grandparents are generally spoiled.” “A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.” “When you have a grandchild, you have two children.” “One of life’s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn’t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.” “If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” “You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.” “The baby is not yet born, and yet you say that his nose is like his grandfather’s.” “Even the devil’s grandmother was a nice girl when she was young.” “To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.” “The old are the precious gem in the center of the household.” “The motherless child will suckle the grandmother.” “If you know his father and grandfather, don’t worry about his son.” ![]()
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