Grandchildren And Grandparents Quotes:

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Grandchildren, Views, Ideas, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

- Robert Breault

topic: Taken, Grandmother, Grandpa, Children And Grandchildren, Funny Grandmother

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

topic: Life, Motivational, Family, Joy Of Learning, Kid At Heart

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

- Lois Wyse

topic: Grandchildren, Grandparent, Childhood, Parents And Grandparents, Best Grandparents

With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.

- Kevin Whately

source: "Kevin Whately On Life Without Morse". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2007.

topic: Children, Grandchildren, My Grandchildren, Children And Grandchildren, Grandchildren And Grandparents

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Funny, Brother, Grandma, Brothers And Sisters, Mother And Grandmother

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

- Rudy Giuliani

topic: Children, Kindness, Life Lesson, My Grandfather, Mother Grandmother

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

- Gene Perret

source: Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

- Susan Strasberg

source: Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”

topic: Home, Grandparent, Aroma, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.

- Jay Kesler

source: Jay Kesler (1993). “Grandparenting: The Agony and the Ecstasy”, Vine Books

topic: Past, Grandparent, People, Grandkids, Parents And Grandparents

Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.

- Liv Ullmann

topic: Baby, Grandma, Grandmother, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

- Art Linkletter

topic: Patriotic, Grandchildren, Names, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

- Gene Perret

topic: Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Mom, Grandmother, Science, Nans, Mother And Grandmother

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

- Bill Cosby

topic: Inspirational, Children, Grandmother, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

- Lois Wyse

source: Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Glowing, Grandson, My Grandfather

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Elephants, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Motivational, Cute, Growing Up, Live And Learn, My Grandfather

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

- Sam Levenson

topic: Inspirational, Family, Children, Grandson, Mother And Grandmother

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

- Lois Wyse

source: Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony

topic: Mother, Children, Grandma, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.54, Rodale

topic: Baby, Grandma, Grandmother, My Grandfather, Mother Grandmother

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

- Claudette Colbert

topic: Mother, Grandchildren, Grandparent, Grandkids, Parents And Grandparents

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Life, Birthday, Mother Grandmother, Mothers Day Grandma

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

source: Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

topic: Grandparent, African American, Slave, Funny Grandmother, Best Grandparents

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

- Pam Brown

topic: Wise, Mother, Grandma, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

- Henny Youngman

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Good Life, Drinking, Grandmother, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Birthday, Beautiful, Art, Inspirational Age, Old Person

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

- Robert Breault

topic: Dog, Children, Grandmother, My Grandfather, Great Grandfather

The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.

- Fred Rogers

topic: Children, Grandma, Past, Parents And Grandparents, Young Children

Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.

- Umair Haque

topic: Grandchildren, Grandpa, Leader, My Grandchildren, Best Grandparents

Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

- Gene Perret

source: Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

topic: Grandchildren, Grandparent, People, Grandson, My Grandchildren

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

topic: Basketball, Mean, Grandmother, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

- Gene Perret

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

topic: Grandma, Believe, Grandmother, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

- William Osler

topic: Grandparent, Veins, Results, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

- Robert Breault

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandpa, Grandkids, Children And Grandchildren

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.

- Gene Perret

source: Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Naps, My Grandchildren, Children And Grandchildren

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

- Gene Perret

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

source: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

topic: Birthday, Hope, Heart, Inspirational Age, Grandkids

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

- Sam Levenson

source: Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.1, Open Road Media

topic: Grandmother, Grandparent, Grandfather, Grandkids, Children And Grandchildren

Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them in ways that they did not indulge their own children. Grandfather knows that after the fun and games are over with his adorable grandchildren he can return to the quiet of his own home and peacefully reflect on this phenomenon of fatherhood.

- Alvin Francis Poussaint

topic: Fun, Children, Home, My Grandfather, Parents And Grandparents

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

- Mell Lazarus

topic: Children, Grandparent, Secret, Secret Life, Children And Grandchildren

What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren.

- Vaughn J Featherstone

topic: Children, Grandmother, Grandparent, Children And Grandchildren, Grandchildren And Grandparents

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

- Jane Smiley

source: Jane Smiley (1991). “Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas”

topic: Son, Grandchildren, Like You, Children And Grandchildren, Grandchildren And Grandparents

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

- Gene Perret

source: Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

topic: Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa, Children And Grandchildren, Funny Grandmother

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

- Sam Levenson

topic: Children, Grandma, Grandmother, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

topic: Grandchildren, Order, Grandparent, Mother Grandmother, Mothers Day Grandma

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

- Lewis Mumford

topic: Family, Father, Grandparent, My Grandfather, Generation Gap

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

- Alex Haley

source: Reader's Digest, 1987.

topic: Life, Children, Grandmother, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother