Bessie-isms:

*Having to raise your grandkids because you children are irresponsible losers is your punishment for being bad parents  to your children. Try not to repeat the same mistake this time!

*There are no accidents, merely people not paying proper attention.

Quotable:

The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward, in the night.

Longfellow