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
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
