Great Grandpa Quotes:

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

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

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

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

- Fanny Fern

source: Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.25, The Floating Press

topic: Mother, Cousin, Uncles, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Relationship, Fun, Halloween, Inspirational Halloween, Mother And Grandmother

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.

- Teresa Bloomingdale

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

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

topic: Grandmother, Grandparent, Bless, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

- Louis Adamic

topic: Fathers Day, Grandfather, Honey, My Grandfather, Great Grandfather

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

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

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed. With Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius and Writings, by N. Rowe”, p.590

topic: Mother, Grandma, Names, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

- Gene Perret

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

topic: Children, Grandmother, Grandparent, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

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 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

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

- Lewis Mumford

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

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

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

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Love, Children, Father, Grandson, My Grandfather

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Ogden Nash

topic: Doors, Grandparent, Discipline, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

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

- Doug Larson

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

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

- Gore Vidal

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

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

- Hannah Whitall Smith

topic: Fun, Grandmother, People, Mother Grandmother, Mothers Day Grandma

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

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

- James Earl Jones

topic: Grandfather, Inspired, Persons, My Grandfather, Great Grandfather

"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

- Gene Perret

topic: Children, Grandpa, Compliment, Parents And Grandparents, Funny Grandparent

I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.

- Gene Perret

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

topic: Nice, Grandmother, Grandchildren, Nice Things, Parents And Grandparents

We did all the standard camp numbers: "Down By The Aegean," "I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa," "This Land is Minos's Land.

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

topic: Land, Numbers, Grandpa, Great Grandpa