Favorite Quotations
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Grandparents
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"Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild." ~ Welsh Proverb
It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific. ~ Mike Krzyzewski
If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather. ~ Bill Clinton
If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~ Italian Proverb
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. ~ Alice Walker
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. ~ G. Norman Collie
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~ Alex Haley
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy—the mother. ~ Claudette Colbert
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. ~ Victor Hugo
The closest friends I have made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and living grandmother or grandfather. ~ Margaret Mead
Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned. ~ Michael Dorris