Grandparent Quotes · Page 5

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.

— Gene Perret

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

— Sam Levenson

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

— Doug Larson

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

— Anthony Foxx

On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

— Gene Perret

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

— Susan Strasberg

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

— Bryan Clay

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part…

— Paul Smith

As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s,…

— Elliot Perlman

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt…

— Eric Clapton

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

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

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student.…

— Wayne Allyn Root

I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to…

— Paula Deen

My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up…

— Michelle Singletary

In southern Italy, where my grandparents had lived, there were few opportunities. The society was static, with rigid social classes. Poor people,…

— Samuel Alito

Other people--grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor--get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates…

— Louise J. Kaplan

If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking…

— Isabel Allende

Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their…

— David Elkind

I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my…

— Carl Jung

And an educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents' and his grandparents' generation have got…

— Lincoln Steffens

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

— Zach Galifianakis

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

— Gene Perret

Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.

— Marc Jacobs

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

— Grandma Moses

If we want to succeed, we need to recover our grandparents’ work ethic.

— Darren Hardy

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

— Anonymous

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

— Benjamin Spock

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

— Margaret Mead

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Mallory Ortberg

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

— Anthony Jeselnik

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

— Dominic Chianese

I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.

— Gene Perret

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

— Doug Larson