All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The Baby Boom has spawned an even bigger Grandma Boom. For every baby born, two women turn into grandmas. — Mary Margaret McBride Copy Share Image
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
My grandparent said a great relationship takes work, good with the bad and just being there for the other. Not running away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's… — Hal Boyle Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
I don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo." — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I never saw a distinction between a man and a woman. My grandparents and my mother were great examples of men and… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are,… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. — William Osler Copy Share Image
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight. — Ariana Grande Copy Share Image
My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent. — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart. — Camara Laye Copy Share Image
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