Quotes on Shoelaces

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at the end that protect them.

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.