Grandparent Quotes · Page 5

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

— Doug Larson

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

— Gene Perret

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Paulette Alden

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

— J. Norman Collie

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

— Pam Brown

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

— Lois Wyse

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who…

— Rachel Carson

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are…

— Henry B. Eyring

If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and…

— Barack Obama

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

— Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

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

— Jay Kesler

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to…

— Jo Nesbo

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

— Jimmy Carter

Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.

— Susan L. Taylor

A grandparent will tell you, "Have fun!" and a parent will tell you, "Be safe, do a good job, make me proud."…

— Diane Lane

I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that…

— Jonathan Meades

The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can…

— Dean Devlin

I'm really interested in the United States, what it means to be American - maybe because my father's an immigrant and my…

— Micah Perks

Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay…

— Dick Van Dyke

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and…

— Jon Meacham

I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were…

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you…

— Paul Auster

Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in…

— Alice Miller

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

— Don Marquis

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

— Ogden Nash

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

— Chris Bohjalian

In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.

— Lucretius

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

— Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Anthony Jeselnik