{"quotes":[{"text":"I’m not trying to—What do teenagers say nowadays?” he asked my grandmother.“Get all up in her biznez,” Nana said.Without cracking a smile.“That’s right,” he replied. “We’re not trying to get all up in your biznez, Ali.","author":"Gena Showalter","tags":["funny","grandparents","teenage-slang"],"id":5102,"author_id":"Gena+Showalter"},{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake,' Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, 'I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["cake","crashing-your-diet","dessert","fighting-for-your-right","fighting-tyranny","food","foodie","foodies","funny","gadfly","grandparents","humor","humorous","humourous","lunch","oppression","rights","tyranny"],"id":14886,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"My parents and grandparents did not tolerate idle thoughts or behavior. If the action did not have a purpose or lead you in a positive direction, their feeling was “why bother?” This is how I was built. This is why I refuse to fail.","author":"Carlos Wallace","tags":["forward-direction","grandparents","parents","positive","purpose-of-life"],"id":42445,"author_id":"Carlos+Wallace"},{"text":"It’s no secret that kids thrive when they have meaningful conversations with caring adults. But in our busy world, it’s not easy to find ways to make this happen, so I developed READ TOGETHER/DO TOGETHER™ to help parents and grandparents create those magic moments.","author":"Kate Boehm Jerome","tags":["children","children-s-books","grandparents","intergenerational","kids","kids-books","parents","parents-and-children"],"id":54950,"author_id":"Kate+Boehm+Jerome"},{"text":"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.","author":"Jim Carrey","tags":["listen","eating","grandparents "],"id":59293,"author_id":"Jim+Carrey"},{"text":"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 them close and hold them tight against her.","author":"Anne Tyler","tags":["children","grandchildren","grandmother","grandparents"],"id":60676,"author_id":"Anne+Tyler"},{"text":"The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.","author":"Elizabeth Goudge","tags":["age","children","grandparents","old","stars","wisdom","youth"],"id":66920,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge"},{"text":"Plus I have no doubt that their garden is also where my grandparents dreamed—for a better life of equality for their grandchildren and future generations. As people rooted in their faith, they probably did a lot of praying here as well, that God would deliver us all to prosperity and peace beyond this plot of land.","author":"Deborah L. Parker","tags":["black-history","civil-rights","grandparents","vision","wisdom"],"id":90342,"author_id":"Deborah+L.+Parker"},{"text":"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.","author":"Ellen DeGeneres","tags":["age","exercise","family","grandmothers","grandparents","humor","walking"],"id":106448,"author_id":"Ellen+DeGeneres"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}