Grandparents.....

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret

Grandmothers are just 'antique' little girls. ~Author Unknown

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~ Welsh Proverb



A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.. ~Author Unknown

Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ~Pam Brown

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Grandfathers have only so many horsy rides in them. ~Gene Perret

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. ~Ogden Nash

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. ~ Marcy DeMaree



Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author unknown

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever. ~Author Unknown

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. ~Lois Wyse

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. ~Gene Perret

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it! ~Hannah Whithall Smith

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother. ~Author Unknown



Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old. ~Mary H. Waldrip

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again.Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. ~Gene Perret



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 . ~Dave Barry

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense. ~Gene Perret

Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love. ~Author Unknown

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~Alex Haley




Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice. ~Author Unknown


A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. ~Author Unknown

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~Joy Hargrove


It's amazing how grandparents seem so young once you become one. ~Author Unknown



If your baby is 'beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time,' you're the grandma. ~Teresa Bloomingdale



Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren. ~Author Unknown



What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate. ~Bill Cosby



Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to agrandmother. G. Norman Collie

Motivational Quotes.....

• Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain.~Vivian Greene
  

• Sometimes our candle goes out, but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being.~Albert Schweitzer
  

• When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.~J. Lubbock
  

• Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.~Henry Ford
  

• Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard.~Unknown
  

• To love what you do and feel that it matters – how could anything be more fun?~Katharine Graham
  

• Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting golden delicious.~Bill Meyer
  

• You can have anything you want in life if you just help enough other people get what they want.~Zig Ziglar
  

• Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.~Abraham Lincoln
  

• A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.~Benjamin Franklin
  

• We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.~Winston Churchill
  

• What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.~Aristotle
  

• You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.~Wayne Gretsky
  

• Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.~Frederick B. Wilcox
  

• A journey of a thousand miles begins within a single step.~Chinese Proverb
  
  
• The key is not to prioritize what's on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities.~Stephen Covey
  

• All things are difficult before they are easy.~John Norley
  

• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.~Will Rogers
  

• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for...~Joseph Addison

Timeless Quotations.....

1. "Well done is better than well said."Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)

2. "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its' pants on."Winston Churchill(1874-1965)

3. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."Mother Teresa(1910-1997)

4. "Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."George Washington(1732-1799)

5. "The time is always right to do what is right."Martin Luther King, Jr.(1929-1968)

6. "All the adversity I've had in my life, has strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."Walt Disney(1901-1966)

7. "Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865)

8. "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."Vince Lombardi(1913-1970)

9. "It is better to light the candle than to curse the darkness."Eleanor Roosevelt(1884-1962)

10. "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."Dwight Eisenhower(1890-1969)

11. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."Nelson Mandela(1918 - )

12. "We must become the change we wish to see in the world."Mahatma Gandhi(1869-1948)

13. "The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart."Helen Keller(1880-1968)

14. "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."Henry Ford(1863-1947)

15. "Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music."Ronald Reagan(1911-2004)

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Lessons For Life....

Quotations by Chanakya

• A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are victimised first."
  
• "Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."
  


• "The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you."
  


• "There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
  


• "Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
  


• "As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."
  


• "Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."
  


• "The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."
  


• "A man is great by deeds, not by birth."
  
  
• "Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."
  


• "Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."
  
  
• "Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."