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“Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care? Doesn't everybody? Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!”

Firsts Littles Done Care Poor Behinds Wife Son I Care Grandchildren Wife And Son Poor Me

Book:Bluebeard

Source: Bluebeard

“Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.”

May Children Said Faces Heard Kissing Down And Lips Remembered Touched Bent Grandchildren Handsome Old Lady Made Me Cry

Book:a tale of two cities

Source: a tale of two cities

“The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.”

Sleep Laughing Seeing Air Balls Pity Soccer Compliment Showers Grandchildren Unborn Radiant Admirer

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.”

May Doe Ends Dies Animal Careers Return Plant Soil Cycles Carbon Grandchildren Plants And Animals Animal Life Carbon Cycle

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.”

Knows Mind Book Soul Hands Would Be Eye Spiritual Adventure Weight Sorry Accidents Resistance Manipulation Grandchildren Cunning Texture Calculations Tokens My Grandchildren

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle”

Ifs Thinking Knows War Do You Know Grandchildren

Book:The Realms of the Gods

Source: The Realms of the Gods

“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.”

“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”

Thinking Mind Mean Doe America Joy Mother Grows Fear Born Generations Stupid Bears Daughter Luck Ignorant Chinese Frightened Grandchildren Connecting Impatient

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”

Heart Children Class Beloved Life Changing Grandchildren Spiders True Friend Good Writers Children And Grandchildren Charlotte Charlotte's Web

Author:E. B. White

“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”

Men Children Hard Fighting Winning Easy Freedom Poor Liberty Fool Slave Libertarian Slips Libertarianism Grandchildren Freedom And Liberty Freedom Liberty

Book:Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.”

Knows Fun Relationship Who You Are Scary Grandmother Halloween Grandparent Grandchildren My Grandmother Grandma Grandpa Children And Grandchildren My Grandchildren Grandkids Parents And Grandparents My Grandma Happy Halloween Your Grandmother Grandparents Day Grandchildren And Grandparents Grandparents From Grandchildren Funny Halloween Mother And Grandmother Scary Halloween Great Grandparents Funny Grandparent Great Grandchildren Great Grandmother Halloween Wishes Grandmother And Grandchildren Mother Grandmother Inspirational Halloween Funny Grandmother Being A Grandmother Funny Happy Halloween Christian Halloween Grand Mother Halloween Love Happy Mothers Day Grandmother Funny Grandchildren Halloween And Friends Happy Grandparents Day Cute Halloween Grandmas And Moms Being A Grandma Mothers Day Grandma Halloween Greeting Great Grandpa Halloween Tumblr Halloween Card Halloween Jokes Halloween Party Great Grandma

Author:Erma Bombeck

“She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.”

Years Firsts Children Stills Ends Hard Singing Red Fruit Thirty Grandchildren Thirty Years Momentary Flowering Coarse Swollen

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.”

World Play Eye Alive Honest All Things Grandmother Grandchildren Grandma My Grandchildren

Book:Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

Source: Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

“So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!”

Waiting Wonder Mutual Approval Grandchildren Suggesting

Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents' generation and from your children's generation too. They'll never understand you and they'll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: 'Theres a chip off the old block,' and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: 'What an old rip Grandma must have been!' and they'll try to be like you.”

Source: Gone with the wind

“I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.”

Humanity Natural Blessing Highest Intelligent Plant Environmental Fulfillment Grandchildren Selection Crossings Only Love Great Outdoors

Author:Luther Burbank

“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.”

Love Secret Knowledge Garden Plant Gardening Grandchildren Breeding Secret Love Scientific Knowledge Gardening And God Spineless

Author:Luther Burbank

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.”

Way Ideas Enjoy Metaphor No Idea Boxing Grandchildren Glaciers

Author:Stephen Colbert

“My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She did not cop out on herself. The benefits of her choices are massive-a long, stable marriage to a man she still calls her best friend; a family that has extended now into grandchildren who adore her; a certainty in her own strength. Maybe some things were sacrificed, and my dad made his sacrifices, too-but who amongst us lives without sacrifice?”

Men Long Made Stills I Can Mother Choices Sacrifice Dad Benefits My Dad Certainty Massive Stable Cop Adore Grandchildren Without Sacrifice

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”

“One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the children or the grandchildren or the great-grandchildren of the people who wouldn't leave in the first place, and because of all the business about selective breeding and regressive genes and so on, it means that all the people now at the party are either absolutely fanatical partygoers, or gibbering idiots, or, more and more frequently, both.”

People Firsts Mean Children Problem Party Idiot Genes Grandchildren Breeding Selective Great Grandchildren Selective Breeding

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”

“I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.”

Children Husband Marvelous Grandchildren Children And Grandchildren

Author:Barbara Bush

“I'll build mine tomorrow," Horace said through a mouthful of food. "This is excellent, Will! When I have grandchildren, I'll name them all after you!”

Said Names Mines Tomorrow Excellent Grandchildren

Author:John Flanagan

“They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with no small wry pique, that, although our parents adored us and would do anything for us, they loved each other more. As far as I was concerned, that was the way it should be. Kids grow up, move on and find a love of their own. The empty nest shouldn't leave parents grieving. It should leave them ready and excited to get on with living their own adventure, which would, of course, include many visits to children and grandchildren.”

Source: Dreamfever: Fever Series

“Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips.”

Source: Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley

“The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.”

Source: Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home

“Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again.”

People Thinking May War Balance Harmony Sacred Good Things Sickness Grandchildren

Book:Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Source: Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

“She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.”

Want Feels Made Sometimes Exciting Awkward Grandchildren My Grandchildren Exciting Things Often Can

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.”

Way Literature Sweet Argument Arguing Dialogue Grandchildren Influencing People Win Friends And Influence People

Book:How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart.”

Ifs Heart Littles Wanted Clock Grandchildren Ribs

Book:Tinkers

Source: Tinkers

“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.”

Art Able Masters Art Is Grandchildren Pupils Nature And Art

Author:Dante Alighieri

“Their grandchildren had reminded Will of the song about demon pox he had taught them- when they were much too young, Tessa had always thought- and that they had all memorized. They sang it all together and out of tune, scandalizing Sophie.”

Together Young Song Taught Demon Tunes Grandchildren Sophie Pox Demon Pox

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.”

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

“Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.”

Thinking Faces Peace Forever Generations Chiefs Our Family Native American Continuing Grandchildren Unborn Generation Gap

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.”

Men Writing Dog Listening Walking Pants Thank You Grandchildren Caps Poop Christmas Present Snoopy

Author:Alan K. Simpson

“How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.”

Author:John Templeton

“A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.”

Children Age Special Praying Calling Battle Fellows Aging Workers Engaged Grandmother Grandchildren Fellow Workers

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.”

Facts Worry Gone Cutting Military Taxes Including Spending Grandmother Grandchildren Tax Cuts My Grandchildren Military Spending

Author:Geraldine Ferraro

“Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.”

Children Important Language Business Teach Our Children Lifetime Chinese Your Children Grandchildren

Book:A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market

Source: A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market

“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.”

Art Artist Nature Painting Art Is Painter Related Grandchildren Fine Arts Famous Artist Inspirational Artist Inspirational Art Fine Artists Nature And Art Painting Art Painting And Art

Author:Rembrandt

“I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.”

Men World Want Children Made Two Dream Born Poor Sweet Daughter Raised Selling My Children Grandmother Grandchildren Defects My Grandmother Corn Countryside My Grandchildren Two Daughters

Author:Hugo Chavez

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth.”

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate them from their families, and expel them.”

People Years Believe May Children Has Beens States Done Community United United States Century Members Years Ago Immigration Quarters Grandchildren Children And Grandchildren

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream ... And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything ... And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he's going to rescue this great country.”

“Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.”

Mean Funny Taught Brother My Brother Grandmother Grandparent Grandchildren Brothers And Sisters My Grandmother Sibling Grandma Your Brother Grandpa Peas Children And Grandchildren My Grandchildren Parents And Grandparents My Siblings Brotherly Brotherly Love My Grandma Brother Sister Your Grandmother Siblings Sisters Grandchildren And Grandparents Grandparents From Grandchildren Cute Sibling Mother And Grandmother Siblings Brothers Great Grandparents Funny Grandparent Great Grandchildren Siblings Sisters And Brothers My Little Brother Grandmother And Grandchildren Mother Grandmother Funny Grandmother Funny Brother And Sister Funny Brother Sister Being A Grandmother Being Pretty Cute Brother And Sister Funny Sibling Grand Mother Happy Mothers Day Grandmother Funny Grandchildren Cute Brother Sister Grandmas And Moms Being A Grandma Funny Brother Great Grandpa Brother Love Cute Brother Love My Brother

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.”

“Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.”

Source: Folly as It Flies

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