Great grandpa Quotes

I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.

— Gene Perret

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

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.

— Bill Cosby

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

— Doug Larson

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

— Susan Strasberg

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

— Gene Perret

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

— Robert Breault

“I like people watching. My favorite places are cemeteries. Tell your great grandpa I said hi next time you see him.”

— Jarod Kintz

Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for…

— Jay Kesler

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

— Gene Perret

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one.…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at…

— Fanny Fern

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or…

— Teresa Bloomingdale

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

— Gene Perret

“Looking at Great-Great Grandpa Baldwin's photograph, I think to myself: You've finally done it. It took four generations, but you've finally goddamned…

— Joe Bageant

I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

— Jennifer Damiano

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

— Doug Larson

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

— Pam Brown

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

— William Shakespeare

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

— Ogden Nash

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in…

— Rudy Giuliani

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

— Gene Perret