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Great Grandparents Quotes:

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

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

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

quote grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation lois wyse Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

source: Reader's Digest, 1987.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

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

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

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

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

source: Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis (2010). “Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)”, p.92, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Fighting, Eight, Grandparent, Broadcasters, Great 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

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

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

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

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

- Lewis Mumford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past

- Dmitri Volkogonov

topic: Past, Names, Grandparent, Great Grandparents

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

All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.

- Hephzibah Menuhin

topic: Roots, People, Grandparent, Great Grandparents

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

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

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

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

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

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

- Art Linkletter

topic: Patriotic, Grandchildren, Names, 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

I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

- Yolanda Adams

source: "Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams, 'Day by Day'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 30, 2005.

topic: Thinking, Grandparent, Missing, Great Parents, Great Grandparents

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Average, Great Grandparents

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

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

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific

- Taylor Caldwell

source: "On Growing Up Tough (The Purple Lodge & The Hippies)". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1971.

topic: Children, Fall, Grandparent, Great Grandparents

My concerts consist of black, white, Korean - everybody. And the age group is so broad, from kids to great-grandparents. I have a lot of people with disabilities who come to my show as well. I personally move them to the front of the line because the lines for my autograph signings are so long. I make sure everybody has a good time at my show.

- Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.

source: Source: abilitymagazine.com

topic: Moving, Kids, White, People With Disabilities, Great Grandparents

[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: People, Track, Grandparent, Great Grandparents

From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: Eight, Boston, Land, Limitless Possibilities, Great Grandparents

It's one of those things that it's everything you think it is, but then again you have to - you need time to really process the entire situation. You stand out on that platform afterwards and you're looking at the ballpark and the fans and the W flags everywhere, and truthfully I do think about everybody, I think about the fans and their parents and their grandparents and great-grandparents and everything that's been going on here for a while. So you think that - I think about my coaching staff.

source: Source: m.cubs.mlb.com

topic: Thinking, Grandparent, Coaching, Ballparks, Coaching Staff

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

My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'

topic: Grandmother, Grandparent, Southern, Mother And Grandmother, Mothers Day Grandma

We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Kings, King Kong, Great Grandparents

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

- Michael Moore

topic: Country, Giving Up, Believe, Long Shots, Great Grandparents

I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.

topic: Home, Past, Grandparent, Respectability, Ireland And The Irish

I just love Wisconsin. I'm a fourth-generation Wisconsinite,and my great grandparents were farmers. My grandfather delivered the mail. My mom was the first in her family to go to college. My dad started this business that becomes an international success. And I just believe very strongly in Wisconsin and who we are and the potential that this state has. And I'm really concerned about the direction that we're headed.

topic: Mom, Dad, Believe, Very Strong, Great Grandparents

I don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and my great-great-grandparents were Flamenco dancers in the 30's in New York, they were Spanish dancers.

topic: New York, Uncles, Philadelphia, Flamenco, Great Grandparents

Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.

- Bryan Stevenson

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Law, People, Grandparent, Disconnected, Great Grandparents

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

- Albert Einstein

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

With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.

- Alan Lightman

source: "Einstein's Dreams". Book by Alan Lightman, 1992.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Courage, Infinite Life, Offering Advice

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