Quotes About Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

#1. To be a leader you have to learn to shout! But after you've learned to shout, you have to learn not to!

Terry Pratchett

#2. I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Mary Roach

#3. Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.

Rodney Stark

#4. Carol looked at her, as if really seeing her for the first time that evening, and under her eyes that went from her face to her hands in her lap, Therese felt like a puppy Carol had bought at a roadside kennel, that Carol had just remembered was riding beside her.

Patricia Highsmith

#5. The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

William Ralph Inge

#6. You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know how to get it right. Plus, once you turn fifty, you kind of stop giving a shit what others think.

Liz Fenton

#7. and gamblers are dry and empty souls, their hearts have been sucked dry, there's no music in their walk, they are colorless and condemned.

Charles Bukowski

#8. Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

Paul Hindemith

#9. You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.

Mireille Guiliano

#10. I'm so embarrassed by that album. I don't even own it myself.

Edward Furlong

#11. What we did with 'Tai Chi Zero' and 'Tai Chi Hero' was break down the martial-arts genre and make it younger, hipper, and kind of cooler for the younger kids.

Daniel Wu