What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't… — Novak Djokovic Copy Share Image
One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of… — Mona Van Duyn Copy Share Image
The best advice I've ever been given is being handed a Bible. That's the blueprint for marriage that we go by, and… — Candace Cameron Copy Share Image
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
As a young child, it became crystal clear to me that there were certain rights and privileges that other people had that… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
A grandparent will tell you, "Have fun!" and a parent will tell you, "Be safe, do a good job, make me proud."… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the… — Mary Margaret McBride Copy Share Image
I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins. — Zach Galifianakis 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
If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy. That's why most of the elderly wear pants… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for… — Jay Kesler Copy Share Image
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image