Great grandparents Quote by Rebecca Patrick-Howard

“Mom was furious at the way people abandoned their pets in the country—“As if animals aren’t human, too.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Pet owners like to think of themselves as the parents of their animals, but they overlook the fact that the ‘children’ they claim are…

— Charles Danten

“She could be a pain in the ass, but she was one gutsy chick. Her kids were lucky to have a mother like her.…

— Jim Butcher

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how…

— Daphne du Maurier

“[From The Old Order ] The Grandmother always treated her animal friends as if they were human beings temporarily metamorphosed . . .”

— Katherine Anne Porter

“There’s an initiative called An Outing with Grandma. Children are rounded up to spend a day with some poor granny, no relation to them,…

— Hendrik Groen

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in…

— Nikolay Chernyshevsky

“the smell of her grandfather’s fifty years of National Geographic, shelved in the hall. Downstairs,”

— William Gibson

“The irony is, she must have offspring all over the district who would be happy to share their homes with her. But it's not…

— J.M. Coetzee

“She could not help but feel that paying money to take ownership of a living organism was inappropriate.”

— Haruki Murakami

“My grandmother got approved right before the law changed, so naturally she got grandfathered in. In related news, but completely unrelated, I was adopted.”

— Jarod Kintz

“In our early days she went with me to the eugenics meetings, but that period soon ended.”

— Christina Stead