Grandparent Quotes · Page 4

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

— Gene Perret

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

— Zach Galifianakis

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

— Bryan Clay

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

— Doug Larson

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

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

— Karan Johar

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

— Camara Laye

Proud parents to two children Grandparents to five more Who visit the "Harper Bakery" It's Gran's cooking they all adore

— John Walter Bratton

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I…

— Douglas Booth

Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's…

— Hal Boyle

We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim…

— Dmitri Volkogonov

One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of…

— Mona Van Duyn

It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

— Igor Stravinsky

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not…

— Alan Dundes

You know when grandparents get older and they can't do things for themselves anymore? I'm gonna struggle with that. Because I hate…

— Blake Griffin

Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up,…

— Gus Van Sant

I know that when I look at today’s Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents…

— Paul Krugman

It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and…

— Cleveland Amory

I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I…

— Bruce Sterling

I always tell my students the same thing. And that's to live life, and to read very voraciously without any definite program.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of…

— Edward Kennedy

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I…

— Jerry Garcia

My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

The way that I feel about my Jewish identity has been really radically changed by events in life. Like, becoming a writer…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a…

— Chantal Akerman

Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me,…

— Ed Mayo

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

— Christian Lacroix

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

— Anonymous

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

— Paula Cole

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

— Albert Einstein

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

— Chris Bohjalian

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

— Ogden Nash

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

— Don Marquis

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

— J. Norman Collie

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

— Paulette Alden

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Doug Larson

Growing up, I spent summers with my grandparents in a small seaside town in Croatia. It's the most beautiful place on the…

— Vanya Asher

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the…

— Brad Pitt