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“It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.”

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Book:The Stories of Ray Bradbury
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“All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.”

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Book:The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
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“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
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“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.”

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Book:Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley
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“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.”

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Book:Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home
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“...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.”

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Book:Fahrenheit 451
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“Vikus looked at Luxa and opened his arms. She stood, still frozen, staring at him as if he were a complete stranger. "Luxa, it's your grandpa," said Gregor. It seemed like the best and most important thing to say at the moment. "It's your grandpa." Luxa blinked. A tiny tear formed at the corner of her eye. A battle took place on her face as she tried to stop the feelings rising up inside her. The feelings won, and to Gregor's great relief, she ran into Vikus's arms.”

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Book:Gregor the Overlander Collection:
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“He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine.”

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

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Author:Bill Cosby
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“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”

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Book:Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters
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“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.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield
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“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.”

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Author:Rudy Giuliani
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“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.”

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Book:Folly as It Flies
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“Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.”

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Book:Blkberry Winter
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“If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.”

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Author:Lois Wyse
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“A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.”

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Book: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
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“Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.”

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Author:Art Linkletter
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“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”

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Author:Lewis Mumford
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“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.”

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Book:Without Makeup, Liv Ullmann: A Photo-biography
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“The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.”

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

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

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

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Author:Robert Breault
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“Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.”

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Book:Jimmy Carter
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“I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.”

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Author:Robert Fulghum
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“The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.”

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Author:Fred Rogers
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