Lesley Stahl Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Lesley Stahl
In various surveys, nearly three-quarters of grandparents say that being a grandparent is the single most important and satisfying thing in their life. Most say being with their grandkids is more important to them than traveling or having financial security. — Lesley Stahl
Then, wham! My first grandchild was born... I was jolted, blindsided by a wallop of loving more intense than anything I could remember or had ever imagined. — Lesley Stahl
This is the only time in our lives we fall madly in love before we know what the person is like. ~Ellen Goodman — Lesley Stahl
This was a relationship I wanted to savor, and put ahead of the demands of my job or anything else tugging at my time and attention. I now had a new first priority.
But there was something more at work here, something mysterious welling up inside me. It wasn't that I hadn't been told that becoming a grandmother was the best thing that ever happens to a woman. But what I couldn't get over was the physicality of my feelings. When I got into bed at night I would pretend I was holding the baby in my arms. I was infatuated. Dare I say it? It felt like - ardor. — Lesley Stahl
I am convinced there's a gramma gene that disables the word "no. — Lesley Stahl
When I told him about Jordan, out flashed pictures of his grandkids. This was how I was introduced to the secret society of grans. We're instant compatriots. If you want to break the ice with someone who's in the society, all you have to do is ask, "So how old is yours? — Lesley Stahl
I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills. — Lesley Stahl
I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it? — Lesley Stahl
You never know when the best day of your life is going to be. — Lesley Stahl
Becoming a gran exhilarated me with a new purpose. The change was so big & granular & unexpected, I wanted to understand it. .,.. Does it happen this way to all grandmothers? — Lesley Stahl
I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced. — Lesley Stahl
Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it. — Lesley Stahl
The strict mother she & her brother had grown up with was body-snatched. "...Who are you? What did you do with my mother? — Lesley Stahl
I was trying to understand my grandmother feelings. Why, when I looked at and held the baby, I felt I was floating, that I was on a high.... I keep wanting to burst into song!
So I wasn't crazy, & I wasn't alone. When a grandmother holds the baby, her brain, like a new mother's, can also be drenched in the bonding hormone oxytocin.
Aha! There it was. We grandmas literally, actually fall in love. — Lesley Stahl
I can't tell people what flag to fly. — Lesley Stahl