60 Quotes About Grandparent

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

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.

Standing off to the side, I watch my grandson presenting the colors in his J.R.O.T.C. uniform, and my heart explodes with both pride and sadness as I realize my little one is gone and a handsome, intelligent young man has appeared.

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

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.

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.

-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

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.