Grandparent Quotes (12 quotes)

“It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her up till dawn, she’d scripted a whole conversation in Greek for her and Bapi to have as their grand finale of the summer. Now she looked at him contentedly munching on his Rice Krispies, waiting for the right juncture for launchtime.

He looked up at her briefly and smiled, and she realized something important. This was how they both liked it. Though most people felt bonded by conversation, Lena and Bapi were two of a kind who didn’t. They bonded by the routine of just eating cereal together.

She promptly forgot her script and went back to her cereal.

At one point, when she was down to just milk, Bapi reached over and put his hand on hers. ‘You’re my girl,’ he said.

And Lena knew she was.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

tags: grandparent, greece, language

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“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.

The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.

The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.

The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.

The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.

The moral of the story?

Kids are smart.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: adult, cactus, child, children, clever, desert, dry, fern, florist, flower, flowerbox, fool, grandparent, grandparents, grownups, kid, kids, moral, plant, plants, shade, smart, sun, sunlight, thrive, thriving, water, watering, wet, wetland

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“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.”
― Aliki

tags: childhood, death, grandparent, grief, love

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“In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.”
― Don Marquis

tags: grandparent, humor, influence

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“Look, Anna,” she says in a panic, “I’ve raised you close to center. Don’t let anyone pull you to the outer edges.”
She rushes to our front-room window. “Your
grandfather is here. No matter what he says, don’t let him draw you into his imaginary world.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

tags: centered, fantasy, grandfather, grandpa, grandparent, imaginary, visitors, zonked

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“Then my abuelita booms out words, loud and clear. She always says the words should be round as dimes and as wild as blossoms blooming.”
― Tony Johnston, My Abuelita

tags: grandparent, humor

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“We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: age, aged, aging, aphorism, aphorisms, dead, death, envious, envy, grandparent, grandparents, humor, humour, immortal, immortality, jealous, jealousy, life, live, live-long, made-me-think, make-you-think, mortal, mortality, old, old-age, old-age-home, old-age-homes, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, senile, senility, thought-provoking, wrinkle, wrinkles

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“Gabriel's face was leathery from the sun, clean with honesty, and framed by a thick beard that was striped black and white like a badger's hide. He was tall, sometimes formidably so, but children tended to forget that when he hunched down on his knees. He did that whenever he could, so that their eyes were level.”
― Angela Panayotopulos, The Wake Up

tags: compassion, face, grandfather, grandparent, honesty, kindness

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“-Si apoi?
- E tarziu, imi raspundea bunicul, si mainile cu pielita mototolita se rasuceau una intr-alta, se cuibareau ca sa se incalzeasca.
E tarziu, imi spun eu, si ma pomenesc frecandu-mi palmele la fel ca bunicul meu”
― Cella Serghi, Cartea Mironei

tags: childhood, grandparent

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“What might our descendants wish we had done better for them?”
― Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

tags: ancestors, children, climate, descendants, environment, future, grandparent, legacy

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