“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents… — Toby Stephens Copy Share Image
It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother -… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The way that I feel about my Jewish identity has been really radically changed by events in life. Like, becoming a writer… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could… — Nikki Sanderson Copy Share Image
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as… — Jack White Copy Share Image
My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
“Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Growing up, I spent summers with my grandparents in a small seaside town in Croatia. It's the most beautiful place on the… — Vanya Asher Copy Share Image
My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. — Paulette Alden Copy Share Image
When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94,… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. — Bryan Clay Copy Share Image
The world will not give you an endowment for your finger-painting. Your finger-painting may be marvelous, but our government and society do… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
I think parenting is one of the most important jobs, because you can hit two or three generations with the values in… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
