“Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.” JourneyYouthEndureIslandsDesignerGrandparentStanding OutIndignityEllis Island Author:Fran Lebowitz
“I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.” WishGrowsYouthGrandmotherGrandparentExtravaganceWanton Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.” PeopleWayYoungParentCompassionMiddleYouthPrideAdultsTreatsTendernessGrandparentElderlyAvariceMiddle AgedDisillusionInhumane Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“They are our future, and we must have a dialogue. This dialogue between the past and the future is important. Because of this I underline so much the relationship between the youth and grandparents. They must speak with.” ImportantPastSpeakYouthDialogueOur FutureGrandparent Author:Pope Francis