It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.
We actually have a small family. It's just my father and I and my grandmother, who lives in Tokyo. I cherish my friendships.
I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.
I can't tell you how many letters I get from grandmothers who say, 'It's the only thing I can talk to my 15-year-old grandson about.' The Lakers are more than just a basketball team to this city. They're part of this community.
When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.
My 91-year-old great-grandma would get out of her chair and whip me if I start acting like I'm some star or something like that.
I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear stories about their parents when they were children.
When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.
I went to school in the afternoon and worked in the morning. Sometimes I went out into the fields with my granddad.
We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents
I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.
My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.
My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.
I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.
My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.
I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.
It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in 'Alice in Wonderland' or a doll with grandma's dress, but then they also let me know they're bummed I didn't do any of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper.
Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
Nothing beats that sloppy kiss of a six-month-old grandchild.
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
