Quotes and Sayings About Grandparent

Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!
-- Abu Yahya al-Libi

#Grandparent #Shining #Looks

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
-- Adam Braun

#Educational #Grandparent #Virtue

But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Writing #Emotional #Grandparent

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
-- Alan Dundes

#Children #Grandparent #Example

There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.
-- Amity Shlaes

#Children #Grandparent #Zombie

I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.
-- Angela Carter

#Grandmother #Grandparent #Together

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
-- Anne Enright

#Grandparent #Surnames #Static

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
-- Anne Lamott

#Kids #Grandparent #Relief

So many things we love are you!
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Grandparent

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

#Mom #Grandparent #Born

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.
-- Antony Sher

#Grandparent #Lithuania #South Africa

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.
-- Ariana Grande

#Eight #Grandparent

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
-- Arthur Hertzberg

#Writing #Grandchildren #Grandparent

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#People #Grandparent #Southern

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
-- Bayard Rustin

#Spring #Gay #Grandparent

Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
-- Betty Ford

#Baby #Husband #Grandparent

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

#Fun #Grandchildren #Grandparent

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.
-- Billy Crystal

#Long #Grandpa #Grandparent

Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.
-- Blythe Danner

#Children #Air #Grandparent

And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future.
-- Brian Schweitzer

#Dream #Clothes #Grandparent

I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.
-- Britt Ekland

#Father #Thinking #Grandparent

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

#Heart #Grandmother #Grandparent

The best advice I've ever been given is being handed a Bible. That's the blueprint for marriage that we go by, and that's what our marriage is grounded in. We also have other married couples who are examples in our lives. My parents have been married over 40 years, and both sets of grandparents for over 65 years. When you see couples in long-term relationships and you see them go through good times and bad times, you realize it's about being committed enough and loving your partner enough to hang in there regardless.
-- Candace Cameron

#Couple #Years #Grandparent

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.
-- Caroline Kennedy

#Grandparent #Parent #Very Happy

One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.
-- Charles Frazier

#Book #Boys #Grandparent

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.
-- Charlie W Shedd

#Grandparent #Age #World

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

#Grandparent #Survivor #Stories

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

#Book #Clothes #Grandparent

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.
-- Clare Bowen

#Beautiful #Grandmother #Grandparent

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
-- Claudette Colbert

#Mother #Grandchildren #Grandparent