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  It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother
 ~grandparent sayings by Author Unknown

  It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
 ~inspirational sayings about Grandparents quotes by Igor Stravinsky

  Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.
 ~grandparent quotes by Author Unknown

  They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.
 ~famous quotes about Grandparents by Joan McIntosh

  A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
 ~grandparent sayings by Erma Bombeck

  Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.
 ~grandparent sayings by Gene Perret

  Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
 ~inspirational sayings about Grandparents quotes by Rita Rudner

  It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother.
 ~grandparent quotes by Author Unknown

  My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
 ~famous quotes about Grandparents by Henry Youngman

  A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
 ~grandparent sayings by William Shakespeare

  I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.
 ~grandparent sayings by Gene Perret

  Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
 ~inspirational sayings about Grandparents quotes by Allan Frome

  When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
 ~grandparent quotes by Judith Levy

  Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag.
 ~famous quotes about Grandparents by Helen Thomson

  It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.
 ~grandparent sayings by Christopher Morley

   Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.
 ~grandparent sayings by Bill Fitch

   People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.
 ~good sayings about Nostalgia by Author Unknown

   Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.
 ~grandparent quotes by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

   Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
 ~motivational quotes about Education sayings by Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928

   Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.
 ~grandparent sayings by Charles Haas

   Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.
 ~grandparent sayings by Gordon B. Hinckley

   The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
 ~good sayings about Self-Discovery by Richard Grant

   Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
 ~grandparent quotes by Herman Melville

   A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
 ~motivational quotes about Books Reading sayings by Henry David Thoreau

   There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
 ~grandparent sayings by William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues

   A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
 ~grandparent sayings by E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

   Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste.
 ~good sayings about Environment by Wallace Stegner, letter to David E. Pesonen of the Wildland Research Center, 3 December 1960 (Thank

   Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
 ~grandparent quotes by George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

   Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
 ~motivational quotes about Mothers sayings by Aristotle

   Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
 ~grandparent sayings by T.S. Eliot

   Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
 ~grandparent sayings by Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

   Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
 ~good sayings about Nature by Rachel Carson

   [P]rimitive tribes were certainly convinced that the spirit, having escaped from the body at death, retained a replica of its earthly tenement. They therefore used tattoo marks as a means of identification in the next world and a passport to future happiness.
 ~grandparent quotes by Ronald Scutt

   Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
 ~motivational quotes about Freedom sayings by Albert Camus

   You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.
 ~grandparent sayings by Arnold Palmer

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