Best Grandparent Proverbs
304 Grandparent quotes by 268 unique authors
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My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.
— Antony Sher
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No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking…
— Jeff Foxworthy
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us…
— Nancy Friday
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told…
— Indira Gandhi
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And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten…
— Jerry Garcia
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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
— Claudette Colbert
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Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their…
— Gail Collins
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My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
— Billy Crystal
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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
— Ellen DeGeneres
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True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for…
— Zooey Deschanel
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It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you…
— Novak Djokovic
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Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that…
— Nina Dobrev
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
— Ralph Ellison
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known…
— William Feather
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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
— Alex Haley
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I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and…
— Simon Hoggart
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
— Victor Hugo
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on…
— Vanilla Ice
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My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda -…
— Curtis Jackson
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Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.
— Marc Jacobs
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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
— Penn Jillette
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I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would…
— James Earl Jones
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