Grandparent Quotations
- "My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn."
-- Louis Adamic - "Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child's growth as vitamins."
-- Joyce Allston - "My grandmother told me to be nice to everyone and always think about how you would feel if you were in their shoes. It's really good advice."
-- Anonymous - "A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween."
-- Erma Bombeck - "Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. "
-- Pam Brown - "Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me."
-- Lord Chesterfield - "If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather."
-- Bill Clinton - "Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy—the mother. "
-- Claudette Colbert - "Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. "
-- G. Norman Collie - "What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate."
-- Bill Cosby - "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, Author of - "Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned."
-- Michael Dorris - "Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother."
-- Edward H. Dreschnack - "Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers."
-- William Feather - "What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren."
-- Vaughn J. Featherstone - "Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own."
-- Benjamin Franklin - "Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends."
-- Allan Frome - "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there."
-- Gandhi - "Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends - and hardly ever our own grown children."
-- Ruth Goode - "Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."
-- Alex Haley - "You're special, you're AWESOME, you're one of a kind! Best of all, dear Grandchild, you are mine for all time!"
-- Karen Hill, Author of - "There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."
-- Victor Hugo - "If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother."
-- Victor Hugo - "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 - "Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap."
-- Doug Larson - "If I would have known that grandchildren were going to be so much fun I would have had them first"
-- Bill Laurin
by Willard Scott - "The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent."
-- Sam Levenson - "The reason that grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy."
-- Sam Levenson - "When a child is born, so are grandmothers."
-- Judith Levy
by Judith Levy
by Judith Levy - "You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
-- Abraham Lincoln - "I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
-- Abraham Lincoln - "My grandfather was a wonderful role model. Through him I got to know the gentle side of men."
-- Sarah Long - "The closest friends I have made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and living grandmother or grandfather. "
-- Margaret Mead - "They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable."
-- Joan McIntosh - "It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. When a man's mother holds his child in her gladden arms he is aware of the roundness of life's cycle; of the mystic harmony of life's ways."
-- Christopher Morley - "Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."
-- Lewis Mumford - "It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me. "
-- Huynh Quang Nhuong - "Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent."
-- Donald A. Norberg - "Truth be told, being a grandma is as close we ever get to perfection. The ultimate warm sticky bun with plump raisins and nuts. Clouds nine, ten, and eleven."
-- Bryna Nelson Paston, Author of - "The birth of a grandchild is a wonderful and exciting event! That wonder and excitement continues throughout life. "
-- Tom Potts - "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."
-- Proverb - "If you know his father and grandfather, don't worry about his son. "
-- African Proverb - "The baby is not yet born, and yet you say that his nose is like his grandfather's."
-- Indian Proverb - "You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."
-- Irish Proverb - "One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world."
-- Jewish Proverb - "If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. "
-- Italian Proverb - "Perfect love sometimes does not come till the first grandchild."
-- Welsh Proverb - "The motherless child will suckle the grandmother."
-- Bambara Proverb - ""Age before beauty," said the devil as he threw his grandmother off' the stairs. "
-- German Proverb - "Even the devil's grandmother was a nice girl when she was young."
-- German Proverb - "There was already twenty in the family, so my grandmother had a baby."
-- Spanish Proverb - "Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs."
-- Traditional Proverb - "A friend of mine was asked how she liked having her first great-grandchild. "It was wonderful," she replied, "until I suddenly realized that I was the mother of a grandfather!"
-- Robert L Rice, M.D. - "Holding a great-grandchild makes getting old worthwhile. "
-- Evalyn Rikkers - "Elephants and grandchildren never forget."
-- Andy Rooney - "Have children while you parents are still young enough to take care of hem."
-- Rita Rudner - "If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!"
-- Hannah Whithall Smith - "Grandma and Grandpa, tell me a story and snuggle me with your love. When I'm in your arms, the world seems small and we're blessed by the heavens above."
-- Laura Spiess - "I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. "
-- Susan Strasberg - "It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us."
-- Igor Stravinsky - "I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
-- Mark Twain - "No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet."
-- Unknown - "A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside."
-- Unknown - "It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother."
-- Unknown - "A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television."
-- Unknown - "Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting."
-- Unknown - "Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while... but our hearts forever."
-- Unknown - "Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone."
-- Unknown - "Grandmothers are good at sitting on the floor to play, but they can be terribly difficult to get upright again."
-- Unknown - "Grandmas outlast tyrants. That's why the world survives."
-- Unknown - "Grandma's never run out of hugs or cookies."
-- Unknown - "Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice."
-- Unknown - "A Grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher and a little bit best friend."
-- Unknown - "A garden of Love grows in a Grandmother's heart."
-- Unknown - "Grandmothers are just "antique" little girls."
-- Unknown - "Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories and Love."
-- Unknown - "Never have children, only grandchildren."
-- Gore Vidal - "Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old."
-- Mary H. Waldrip - "My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker. "
-- Alice Walker - "Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives."
-- John Wooden - "Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old."
-- Lois Wyse, Author of
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