Grandparents Day

 

I don't know who my grandfather was

I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

                                                                                                         - Abraham Lincoln

 

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

                                                                                                       - Charles W. Shedd

  

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

                                                                                                                                 - Anne Sexton

 

 

It is one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to different generations

 

than to the generation immediately preceding us.

                                                                                                             - Igor Stravinsky

 

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up

 

close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

                                                                                                          - Margaret Mead

 

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature.

But beautiful old people are works of art.

                                                                                   - Marjory Barslow-Greenbie

 

 

The roses of my grandmother are as yellow as my grandfather, who was born in Asia.

                                                                                               - Eugene Ionesco, "The Lesson"

 

 

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

                                                                               - Lewis Mumford,"The Brown Decades"

 

 

 

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

                                                                                               - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

 

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

                                                                                                            - Oscar Wilde

 

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

                                                                                                           - Lydia m. Child

 

 

Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me,

 

I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother.

                                                                                                - Mrs. Margaret Whitlam

 

 

Our mothers and grandmothers...moving to music not yet written.

                                                                                                              - Alice Walker

 

 

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

                                                                                                  - William Shakespeare

 

...she is the teeming mother of mothers the bearer of them that shall grow and

 

  be mates to the mothers.

                                                                                                           - Walt Whitman

 

 

Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own

 

families,a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood"

 

as a grandparent.

 

                                                                              - Alvis F. Poussaint, "Fatherhood"

 

 

Theophilis, daughter of Cleocha, made it - Daughter, Mother, Grandmother.

                                                                                                                   - Nossis

 

 

They pampered me, especially my grandmother.... I loved her with all my heart.

                                                                                                                - Camara Laye

 

 

If God had intended us to follow recipes,

He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

                                                                                                     - Linda Henley