Funny Grandparent Quotes

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

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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

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

  Gene Perret

  Children, Grandmother, Grandparent

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

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

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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

  Doug Larson

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Ideas

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• 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

  Kindness, Children, Life Lesson

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• 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

  Grandma, Believe, Grandmother

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• It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Grandpa, Goofy, Happens

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

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Grandma, Grandmother

  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.36, Open Road Media

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

  Henny Youngman

  Good Life, Grandma, Drinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Life, Children, Grandmother

  Reader's Digest, 1987.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Mom, Grandma, Grandmother

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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

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

  Ogden Nash

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Children, Grandmother

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

  Robert Breault

  Dog, Children, Grandmother

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

  Margaret Mead

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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

  Pam Brown

  Wise, Mother, Grandma

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

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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

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

  Doug Larson

  Grandma, Grandmother, Fighting

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• 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

  Basketball, Mean, Grandmother

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• 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

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Naps

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

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

  Gene Perret

  Grandchildren, Grandparent, People

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

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