#grandparent

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. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cactus #child #children #clever #desert

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#avenue #bronx #davidson #grandparents #had

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. ↗

— Colin Firth

#been #complicity #engaged #grandparents #grown

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. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#exercise #family #grandmothers #grandparents #humor

I lost my virginity in the back seat of a Buick. Not because I’m a romantic, but because my grandpa and grandma were in the front seats.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cars #driving #family #funny #grandma

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother. ↗

— Claudette Colbert

#along #get #grandchildren #grandparents #mother

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good. ↗

— Paula Cole

#feels #good #grandparents #her #i

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#grandparents #i #loved #sometimes #went

Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#being #everything #first #going #grandchildren

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

— Don Marquis

#careful #child #grandparent #influence #must