Grandparent Quotes

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

— Victor Hugo

Grandparents are God's gifts to children.

— Bill Cosby

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

— Carrie Fisher

Beautiful old people are works of art.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Every house needs a grandmother in it.

— Anonymous

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

— Charlie W Shedd

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

— Jan Karon

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

— Andy Rooney

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

— Margaret Mead

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

— Gene Perret

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

— Gene Perret

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

— Gene Perret

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

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

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

— Pope Francis

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

— Wallace Stegner

My parents and grandparents always made me feel fortunate. I'm in a position to help others feel the same. It's just in…

— Kevin Martin

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent…

— Lee Greenwood

It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when…

— Eda LeShan

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

— Gabriel Basso

Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but…

— Jason Gann

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going…

— Mike Love

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it.…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults…

— Barack Obama

When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread…

— Lance Henriksen

We don't want this globalised economic system which does us so much harm. Men and women have to be at the centre…

— Pope Francis

I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have…

— Alice Walker

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee; I went to college in New Orleans before moving to New York City for graduate school.…

— Bryant Terry

I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents. There are so many of…

— Chantelle Brown-Young

I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this…

— Gerald R. Ford

One thing is funny because my grandparents are going to come see the show and my mom was concerned that they wouldn't…

— Sarah Steele

It's one of those things that it's everything you think it is, but then again you have to - you need time…

— Joe Maddon

Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life…

— Richard Louv

I was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know,…

— Rafael Cruz

It isn't easy for everyone in Germany to make ends meet through well-paid work in Germany. You have to have sufficient skills…

— Sigmar Gabriel

When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94,…

— Loung Ung

I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were…

— Lydia Wilson