Grandparent Quotes - Page 2

• Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Growing Up, Home, Age

  46 Copy quote

• When a child is born, so are grandmothers.

  Judith Ellen Levy

  Baby, Children, Grandma

  12 Copy quote

• Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

  Gail Buckley

  Family, Past, Mirrors

  "Books of the Times" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

  Grandma Moses

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Thinking

  31 Copy quote

• Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Grandma, Long Ago, Doubt

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Funny, Life, Birthday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  156 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Children, Father

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1343, BookCaps Study Guides

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Lewis Mumford

  Family, Father, Grandmother

  The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

  Don Marquis

  Children, Order, Literature

  13 Copy quote

• Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

  Jim Carrey

  Family, Sandwiches, Noses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandmother, People, Grandfather

  Margaret Mead (1992). “To Grandmother with Love: A Special Tribute”, Andrews McMeel Pub

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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, Grandfather

  21 Copy quote

• I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Fathers Day, Future

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

  91 Copy quote

  Show source

• Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

  Paulette Alden

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

  Paulette Bates Alden (1988). “Feeding the Eagles: Short Stories”

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  18 Copy quote

• Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

  Charlie W Shedd

  Grandfather, Age, World

  Charlie W Shedd (1976). “Grandparents: Then God Created Grandparents and It Was Very Good”, Doubleday

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

  Brad Pitt

  Grandmother, Names, Grandfather

  9 Copy quote

• 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.'

  Jamie Foxx

  Grandmother, Southern, Gentleman

  9 Copy quote

• Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!

  Abu Yahya al-Libi

  Shining, Looks, Brows

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Grandchildren, Childhood, Ends

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.

  Betty Ford

  Baby, Husband, Grandpa

  7 Copy quote

• Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Maturity, Long, Duration

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.72

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Children, Father

  19 Copy quote