Grandparent Quotes

Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

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

Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that often.

Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.

If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.

Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.

If your grandparents are Mexican, you can relate through the roots of the show [Top Chef], through the food, through the traditions and find yourself and get to know yourself too.

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

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?

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

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

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.

Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

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.

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.

True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.

As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

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

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection to this special island forever.

I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.

People who are interested with me have for sure gotten older over the years, for example, grandparents are coming up to me telling me they grew up watching me.

I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.