Grandchildren And Grandparents Quotes - Page 2

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Birthday, Beautiful, Art

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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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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

Children, Grandma, Past

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

Umair Haque

Grandchildren, Grandpa, Leader

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

Gene Perret

Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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

William Osler

Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

The Principles and Practice of Medicine p. 130. Appleton, New York (1892)

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

Robert Breault

Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandpa

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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 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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Beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Beautiful, Art, Nursing

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Birthday, Hope, Heart

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

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

Sam Levenson

Grandmother, Grandparent, Grandfather

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

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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

Fun, Children, Home

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

Mell Lazarus

Children, Grandma, Grandpa

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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

Children, Grandmother, Grandparent

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

Jane Smiley

Son, Grandchildren, Like You

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

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

Gene Perret

Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

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

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

Lewis Mumford

Family, Father, Grandmother

The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)

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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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