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Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed. With Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius and Writings, by N. Rowe

“Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.”

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

“Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.”

Source: Without Makeup, Liv Ullmann: A Photo-biography

“The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.”

“Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones.”

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Author:P. W. Singer

“Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.”

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Author:Gary Snyder

“I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?'”

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Author:Zach Galifianakis

“I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.”

“It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.”

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Author:Igor Stravinsky

“To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.”

“I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.”

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Author:Robert Breault

“Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.”

“To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."”

“If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.”

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Author:Jean Kerr

“Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.”

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Author:Florence King

“My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.”

“We have become a grandmother.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

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

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Author:Alice Walker

“My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.”

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Author:Marian Seldes

“I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then, because my grandfather, Senator Gore, was blind, I was required early on to read grown-up books to him, mostly constitutional law and, of course, the Congressional Record. The later continence of my style is a miracle, considering those years of piping the additional remarks of Mr. Borah of Idaho.”

“The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.”

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Book:To Grandmother with Love: A Special Tribute

Source: To Grandmother with Love: A Special Tribute

“Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.”

“I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to cook and how to work.....they showered us kids with love and left the parenting to Momma and Daddy. That's the beauty of being a grandparent - the hard work belongs to someone else. I guess I never really understood the depth of their love for me until I became a grandmother myself... it is unlike any other relationship.”

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Author:Paula Deen

“My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.”

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Book:The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

“For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.”

“As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.”

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Book:Literary Occasions: Essays

Source: Literary Occasions: Essays

“One day. my kids are gonna be like, 'What do you mean, gay people couldn't get married?' Just like most of my friends are black, and I find it hard to believe that my great-grandmother and even my grandmother couldn't hang out with black kids when they were young.”

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Author:Miley Cyrus

“In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.”

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Author:George Gissing

“Through my grandmother's eyes, I can see more clearly the way things used to be, the way things ought to be, and most important of all, the way things really are.”

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Author:Ed Cunningham

“A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.”

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Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For the Democratic women of the House, our work is not about the next election, but rather the next generation.”

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Author:Nancy Pelosi

“One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.”

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Author:Samuel Smiles

“I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.”

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Author:Eric Clapton

“We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.”

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Book:The Alice Walker Collection: Fiction

Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Fiction

“In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.”

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Author:Padma Lakshmi

“My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.”

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