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Grandparent Quotes & Sayings

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We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past — Dmitri Volkogonov

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another. — Max Bemis

It's often said when a baby is born so is a grandparent; well, for me it turned out that when I was born it was also the birth of a Ding Dong. — Lisa A. Tortorello

Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago ... — Mary Mapes Dodge

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what. — Sam Levenson

Grandparents are God's gifts to children. — Bill Cosby

A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect. — Erma Bombeck

I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel. — Donna Lynn Hope

When a child is born, so are grandmothers. — Judith Ellen Levy

Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls. — Os Guinness

Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother. — Margaret Whitlam

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil. — Horace

"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive. — Gene Perret

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy. — Laura Lippman

So many things we love are you! — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Realize that grieving is a process. It doesn't stop just because the family wants the parent or grandparent to get on with life. — Lisa Wingate

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written. — Alice Walker

We have become a grandmother. — Margaret Thatcher

A Grandmother is a safe haven. — Suzette Haden Elgin

I loved Grandpa Reed. Without a doubt, he was my favorite grandparent. — Kimberly Willis Holt

It's impossible for me to hear the words quadruple murder suicide without thinking of my grandparents. — Anthony Jeselnik

We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents — Pope Francis

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. — Sam Levenson

If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all. — Edith Konecky

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. — Angela Carter

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being. — Margaret Mead

The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already. — Aliki

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. — Robert Breault

I love being a grandparent. I'm one of those you want to avoid - I pull out the iPhone and say, 'Hey, wanna see my camera roll?' — Susan Isaacs

To know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother. — Elizabeth Goudge

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us. — Gore Vidal

Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents. — Susan L. Taylor

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather. — Margaret Mead

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company. — William Shakespeare

I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home. — W.C. Fields

Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents. — James Cook

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents. — Charlie W Shedd

As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try. — Mary Margaret McBride

They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart. — Camara Laye

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize. — Eda LeShan

People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen. — Dave Grohl

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. — Horace Mann

Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears. — Hilaire Belloc

Then my abuelita booms out words, loud and clear. She always says the words should be round as dimes and as wild as blossoms blooming. — Tony Johnston

Grandparents ... can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history ... — Jim Conway

In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life. — Lucretius

It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific. — Mike Krzyzewski

A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight. — Erma Bombeck

I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg. — Jared Taylor

My grandparents came worked hard, and I believe they never regretted their decision to come here and make a new start. — Samuel Alito

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically. — Benjamin Spock

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy. — Jimmy Carter

I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax. — Lauren Groff

There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start. — Mary Margaret McBride

We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents. — Sam Wineburg

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while. — Billy Crystal

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present. — Margaret Mead

Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances. — Gabriel Basso

You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents. — Mallory Ortberg

Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow! — Abu Yahya Al-Libi

Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about." — Mark Falcoff

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time. — Abbas Kiarostami

My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent. — Karan Johar

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents. — Suzanne La Follette

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

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life. — Kevin Whately

Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us. — Umair Haque

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships. — Wallace Stegner

The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren. — Mell Lazarus

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity. — Samuel Johnson

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one — Zack De La Rocha

All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke. — Hephzibah Menuhin

Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm. — Gottfried Keller

I once walked in on my grandparents making love ... And that's why I don't eat raisins. — Zach Galifianakis

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. — Don Marquis

The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties. — Margaret Mead