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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
- Kahlil Gibran

...So wise and right and tender a heart, that it was as good as genius.
- Margaret Oliphant

As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground. But the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of Spring.
- Homer

Our mothers and grandmothers...moving to music not yet written.
- Alice Walker

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
- William Shakespeare

She is a tree of life to them.
-Proverbs 3:18

When she left she always kept the door slightly unlatched....She always called in a whisper, "Good night my sweet sparrows."
- Lorrie Moore

One life of so much consequence!
Yet I - for it- would pay -
My soul's entire income -
In ceaseless - salary -
- Emily Dickinson

Let us love then, let us love! be quick to enjoy the fleeting hour!
- Alphonse De, Lamartine

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
- John Dunne

'Tis a high virtue to tread in the steps of our ancestors, when they have gone before us in the right path.
- Pliny the Younger

So unaffected, so composed, a mind,
So firm, yet soft, so strong, yet so refin'd.
- Alexander Pope

You are the sun, grandma, you are the sun in my life.
- Kitty Tsui

Those shadowy recollections
Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,
Are yet a master-light of all our seeing.
- William Wordsworth

...and they said, "You are silver!"
My answer: "What of it?
If the sun lights up my hair,
Is this not cause for joy?"
- Ibn Ghaiyath

O Heart's memory, you are stronger than the mournful memory of reason; and often in a distant land you bewitch me with your sweetness.
- Konstantin Batyushkov

Thou were my guide, philosopher, and friend.
- Alexander Pope

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