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

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Source : Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

Gene Perret

#Grandmother Quotes #Grandchildren Quotes #Grandparent Quotes

“I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.”
“You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.”
“Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.”
“Empowerment is a thing that you earn over time - as you overcome obstacles, learn, and accomplish things, you become empowered. Empowerment is not a thing that you are born with and that the parent's job is to get out of the way of. Empowerment is a thing that you earn. And some of that is that you become empowered by knowing that you were disempowered or by knowing that there were tremendous limits on what you were able to do, as a young person.”
“When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them love. They are to be acknowledged for speaking their truth.”
“I'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.”

Source : "Ed Burns keeps it real, and really small". Interview with Nina Metz, articles.chicagotribune.com. January 13, 2012.
“If you run your business fairly; if you treat people well; if you try to move your business into areas that are making a real positive difference to other peoples lives; I think you'll A. have much pleasant life, but B. I think you'll have a much more successful business.”
“I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”

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