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“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
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“I’m not trying to—What do teenagers say nowadays?” he asked my grandmother.“Get all up in her biznez,” Nana said.Without cracking a smile.“That’s right,” he replied. “We’re not trying to get all up in your biznez, Ali.”
― Alice in Zombieland
― Alice in Zombieland
“In this huge old occidental culture our teaching elders are books. Books are our grandparents!”
― The Practice of the Wild
― The Practice of the Wild
“The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.”
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“The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.”
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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.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
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.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.”
― Big Stone Gap
― Big Stone Gap
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
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“Small animals are a great problem. I wish God had never created small animals, or else that He had made them so they could talk, or else that He'd given them better faces. Space. Take moths. They fly at the lamp and burn themsleves, and then they fly right back again. It can't be instinct, because it isn't the way it works. They just don't understand, so they go right on doing it. Then they lie on their backs and all their legs quiver, and then they're dead. Did you get all that? Does it sound good?"
"Very good," Grandmother said.
Sophia stood up and shouted, "Say this: say I hate everything that dies slow! Say I hate everything that won't let you help! Did you write that?”
― The Summer Book
"Very good," Grandmother said.
Sophia stood up and shouted, "Say this: say I hate everything that dies slow! Say I hate everything that won't let you help! Did you write that?”
― The Summer Book
“You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage.”
― Halfway to the Grave
― Halfway to the Grave
“I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.”
― Mud, Sweat and Tears
― Mud, Sweat and Tears
“By the standards of the European industrial world we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe.”
― Season of Migration to the North
― Season of Migration to the North
“If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon bits of rock.”
― Fire
― Fire
“Grandparents are like that. Grandparents are convinced they’re better parents than their own kids, whose lives they’ve already fucked up. The problem is, grandparents are pains in the ass because they have money”
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“I haven't seen you in a while,
but today I was told you prayed for me.
And I prayed for the olive oil
when it slipped
from your hands
onto my scalp,
aching strands of hair
in the drought of being without you.”
― Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air
but today I was told you prayed for me.
And I prayed for the olive oil
when it slipped
from your hands
onto my scalp,
aching strands of hair
in the drought of being without you.”
― Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air
“People don’t see you when you’re older. People like me and Ella…it’s like we’re
invisible. That’s how I feel…invisible.”
I looked at him for a moment, looked at the wrinkles on his face, the creases under his eyes, the faint white stubble along his jaw, the ruddiness of his nose, his cheeks. I loved his wrinkles, loved the lines of wisdom
on his brow, his forehead. Loved his calloused hands, the healthy red of his skin, the hairs on his head resembling pale-gray toothbrush bristles. “I can’t imagine not seeing you, Grandpa.” A tear slid down his cheek, catching in the corner of his mouth. “You’ll never be invisible to me.”
― Sweet Tea & Snap Peas
invisible. That’s how I feel…invisible.”
I looked at him for a moment, looked at the wrinkles on his face, the creases under his eyes, the faint white stubble along his jaw, the ruddiness of his nose, his cheeks. I loved his wrinkles, loved the lines of wisdom
on his brow, his forehead. Loved his calloused hands, the healthy red of his skin, the hairs on his head resembling pale-gray toothbrush bristles. “I can’t imagine not seeing you, Grandpa.” A tear slid down his cheek, catching in the corner of his mouth. “You’ll never be invisible to me.”
― Sweet Tea & Snap Peas
“Growing up in the late 1970s, coorie at my gran's house meant to keep warm and cuddle in. No double glazing or duvets then.”
― The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way
― The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way
“I remember being coorie at my gran's house next to her and my granda on the sofa but now it's something I like to do with my dog.”
― The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way
― The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way
“Returning the phone, she said, “You’re an artist.”
The whole train seemed to shimmer. The stars shone brighter out the window.
Ray knew Grampa and his art teacher believed in him, but nobody had ever said, “You’re an artist.” Just like that. Let alone someone his own age. Maybe Mel wasn’t easy to get to know, but she sure did have a kind heart.”
― Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
The whole train seemed to shimmer. The stars shone brighter out the window.
Ray knew Grampa and his art teacher believed in him, but nobody had ever said, “You’re an artist.” Just like that. Let alone someone his own age. Maybe Mel wasn’t easy to get to know, but she sure did have a kind heart.”
― Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
“To live long enough is to find that one’s future, when it arrives, is as foreign a country as the past.”
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“Before the ubiquity of the traditional schooling system, it was the families that fulfilled this role. The nuclear family and single parents that stay in smaller households was the exception rather than the norm. Family members tended to stay together in one area. This meant in one homestead there were grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts and so on. This in turn created a strong supportive environment”
― The Homeschooling Father, How and Why I got started.: Traditional Schooling to Online Learning until Homeschooling
― The Homeschooling Father, How and Why I got started.: Traditional Schooling to Online Learning until Homeschooling
“A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.”
― Sweet Tea & Snap Peas
― Sweet Tea & Snap Peas
“But a grandparent also needs a child. To live longer, to smile more, and to learn to love all over again.”
― Sweet Tea & Snap Peas
― Sweet Tea & Snap Peas
“Everyone remembers the first time they saw a dead body. As a child, David recalled his first encounter: his grandfather lying still, lifeless, and unproductive in his coffin. He carried this image with him for the rest of his life, always aware that time is finite and that one must use it wisely.”
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“I didn’t tell anyone else. There was the problem of expressing my devastation. Grandparents were meant to be old; they were meant to get sick. This was among the sorrows of life for which outsiders were not expected to pause their routines, to inconvenience themselves.
There were tragedies of the highest order that upended ordinary life, the ones that ushered in deviations of kindness. Then there was life itself, at every turn a devastation, which nevertheless did nothing to stall its flow.”
― The Anthropologists
There were tragedies of the highest order that upended ordinary life, the ones that ushered in deviations of kindness. Then there was life itself, at every turn a devastation, which nevertheless did nothing to stall its flow.”
― The Anthropologists
“As a child, I viewed them as grandparents. As an adult, I view them simply as grand. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”
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