My Sweet Books

Evil prevails when good people do nothing

Gift last for few days, guidance last forever

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own

It's not your job to teach me. It is my job to learn from you

It is not by insulting people that we teach them. - On Disrespect

It was either that or sit at home with Mother all day. I picked the lesser of two evils

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same things. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them al

You are the sun, Grandma, you are the sun in my life

Invest your money and time acquiring knowledge for yourself... and the good news is that as you do so, you keep your children and grandchildren

Young people need something stable to hang on to a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been

It is only by looking back, as an old woman myself, like her a widow and a grandmother, that I can see how much she loved me and can pay her out

She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull

If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren

My grandmother had a love which found in me so totally its complement, its goal, its constant lodestar, that the genius of great men, all the genius

Instead of writing the epitaph on your grave; more beautiful and memorable is to leave some handwritten letters to your wife, sons and daughters

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well They have the same enemy the mother

I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want

Only through love will we find our way to create a world worthy of our children and our grandchildren

We wish grandparents would remember these two truths about grandchildren 1. They are not your children 2. They are your grandchildren

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather