We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did. — Jane Fonda 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
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but… — Jason Gann Copy Share Image
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long… — Trent Lott 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
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 tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Other people--grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor--get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their… — David Elkind 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
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
I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the… — Andrew O'Hagan 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
“It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her up till dawn,… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we… — Laura Bush 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
One of the great things about being a grandparent is you get to redo what you didn't or couldn't do as a… — Rita Williams-Garcia 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
Learning, traveling and comparing the world, writing outraged poetry, producing revolutionary art, demonstrating, holding the older generation-including their own parents and grandparents,… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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
All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system. — Erin Cummings Copy Share Image
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
