“The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.” FamilyBrotherShameChoiceAshamedGrandmotherGrandfatherEmbarrassedUnclesSistersGrandparentCousinAuntChooseEmbarrassmentSiblingSisterShamefulSiblingsBrothersFamiliesExtended FamilyNuclear FamiliesGrandparentsChoseGrandmothersUncleCousinsEmbarrassNuclear FamilyAuntsGrandfathersExtended Families Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“A baby boy has a special way of brining out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather.” QuotesBabiesFathersComic Strip MamaGrandfathersBaby BoysQuotes About Babies Author:Tanya Masse
“My grandfather's name was Arthur, and he talked all the time about his arthritis but pronounced it autha-itis, so for months I thought it was a condition unique to him, that he had his own special burden, just like my brother and me.” PoetryPoemAgingBurdensArthritisGrandfathers Book:Worldly Things Source: Worldly Things
“Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!” PastMehmet Murat Ildan QuotesRiversValleysGrandfatherTurkish LiteratureTurkish QuotesTurkish WritersMehmet Murat Ildan QuotationsIldan Wise SayingsTurkish Wisdom WordsTurkish PlaywrightsTurkish QuotationsTurkish AuthorsIldan WisdomIldan WordsKnow YourselfTurkish AphorismsTurkish SayingsTurkish ThinkersPast QuotesPast QuotationsDistantAccumulatedGrandfathersPast QuoteDistant Past Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The strength of human instinct seems to be quite overrated as it is so feeble it requires a lifetime of guidance, education, training and practical experience to develop. More critically, without conscious and diligent effort across one generation to pass its knowledge on to the next generation, all that was gained will be lost, forewarned by an increasing rarity of the reminiscence, “Every secret of life I know, I learned at my grandfather’s knee.” ResponsibilityGenerationsDiligenceGrandparentsHuman InstinctGrandfathers Author:T.K. Naliaka