Quote

If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.

Regina Brett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Regina Brett
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Ravenna
Ohio
Still
Enough
Grandparents
Grandparent
Visit
Cherish
Celebrate
Lucky
Stills

More quotes by Regina Brett

Image
When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
Regina Brett
Image
Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
Regina Brett
Image
Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
Regina Brett
Image
Choas will come, calm will follow, and then it will start up all over again. The secret is to savor the ride.
Regina Brett
Image
When in doubt, take the next step.
Regina Brett
Image
However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
Regina Brett
Image
Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.
Regina Brett
Image
No matter how I feel, I get up, dress up, and show up for life. When I do, the day always serves up more than I could have hoped for. Each day truly is a slice of heaven. Some days the slices are just smaller than others.
Regina Brett
Image
We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community.
Regina Brett
Image
It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.
Regina Brett
Image
Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.
Regina Brett
Image
As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.
Regina Brett
Image
Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.
Regina Brett
Image
Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.
Regina Brett
Image
Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
Regina Brett
Image
Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.
Regina Brett
Image
Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
Regina Brett
Image
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
Regina Brett
Image
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
Regina Brett
Image
Forgive everyone everything.
Regina Brett