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  • They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.

    Roots   Grandpa   Water  
  • My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying I love you. His love had to do with the way he treated you. When he said, We're going here, we're going there, he was telling me about life. That was his love for me. My love for him was listening to what he said, keeping out of trouble, doing right, being fair.

  • My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.

    Source: www.justjared.com
  • It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

  • I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.

    Hate   Past   Grandpa  
    Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2010). “Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary”, p.193, Simon and Schuster
  • I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

    Grandpa   Spy   Trying  
  • I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

    Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”
  • Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.

    Dad   Children   Father  
  • President Obama finally has his own personal Twitter account. Even John McCain said, 'Welcome to the Internet, grandpa.'

  • 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.

    Mother   Cousin   Uncles  
    Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.25, The Floating Press
  • Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

    Artist   Grandpa   Want  
  • Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

  • Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

    Cheer   Men   Grandpa  
    Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.66, ETT Imprint
  • A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

    Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony
  • I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to LA when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.

    "Exclusive: Jacob Latimore talks Black Nativity and Maze Runner". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. November 26, 2013.
  • In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

    War   Hero   Thinking  
  • I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

  • The reward is in the risk. You can’t stay hidden inside Grandpa’s overprotective cloak forever. You’ve seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it’s up to you to

    Notebook   Mom   Dad  
    Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.212, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

    Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways
  • On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

  • So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

  • I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

    Grandpa   Car   Listening  
  • Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me We in like that, you're dead like Presley

    Rap   Grandpa   Tests  
  • 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.

    Summer   Running   Sweet  
    Grace Paley (2016). “Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley”, p.199, Hachette UK
  • Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

    Up North   White   People  
    "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

    Life   Art   Ambition  
  • I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

    Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr
  • Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Silly   Names   People  
    Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
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