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Friday 31 August 2012

Grandparents day


 


Grandparents Day

 
I don't know who my grandfather was

I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

                                                                                                         - Abraham Lincoln
 
Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.
                                                                                                       - Charles W. Shedd
  
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

                                                                                                                                 - Anne Sexton
 
 
It is one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to different generations
 
than to the generation immediately preceding us.

                                                                                                             - Igor Stravinsky

 
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up
 
close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

                                                                                                          - Margaret Mead

 
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature.
But beautiful old people are works of art.

                                                                                   - Marjory Barslow-Greenbie
 
 
The roses of my grandmother are as yellow as my grandfather, who was born in Asia.

                                                                                               - Eugene Ionesco, "The Lesson"

 
 
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
                                                                               - Lewis Mumford,"The Brown Decades"
 
 
 
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
                                                                                               - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
 
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
                                                                                                            - Oscar Wilde
 
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
                                                                                                           - Lydia m. Child
 
 
Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me,
 
I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother.
                                                                                                - Mrs. Margaret Whitlam
 
 
Our mothers and grandmothers...moving to music not yet written.
                                                                                                              - Alice Walker
 
 
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
                                                                                                  - William Shakespeare
 
...she is the teeming mother of mothers the bearer of them that shall grow and
 
  be mates to the mothers.
                                                                                                           - Walt Whitman
 
 
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.
 
                                                                              - Alvis F. Poussaint, "Fatherhood"
 
 
Theophilis, daughter of Cleocha, made it - Daughter, Mother, Grandmother.
                                                                                                                   - Nossis
 
 
They pampered me, especially my grandmother.... I loved her with all my heart.
                                                                                                                - Camara Laye
 
 
If God had intended us to follow recipes,

He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.
                                                                                                     - Linda Henley