"I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old."

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Grandmother Quotes #Grandparent Quotes #Wish Quotes

“When you strip away all the little things that divide us, it's important to remember how tied we are”
“The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.”
“Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.”
“Through the plan of prayer, God actually is inviting redeemed man into full partnership with Him; not in making the divine decisions, but in implementing those decisions in the affairs of humankind. Independently and of His own will, God makes the decisions governing the affairs of earth. The responsibility and authority for the enforcement and administration of those decisions, He has place upon the shoulders of the church.”
“Life is not a journey, it is a destination”
“It would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language in your mind that wasn't there the night before?”

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“A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.”
“Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?”

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