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“Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.”

Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First

“My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.”

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

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

Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First

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

Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First

“I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.”

Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First

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

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

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Book:Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First

Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First

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

Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First

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

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Book:Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First

Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First

“Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.”

Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First

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

Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First

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

“My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.'”

Faces Lines Growing Up Growing Middle Come Up Comic Noses Your Face Grandpa

Author:Rachel Bloom

“As far as I know, no one in the Kaufman or Hart clan was the basis for anyone in the play. I think we all wish we had a Grandpa, Penny, and Mr. De Pinna in our families.”

Thinking Knows Play Wish Bases Our Family Pennies Grandpa Clans Hart

Author:Chris Hart

“A couple of years ago my friend and business partner Jeffrey Richards was doing the Gore Vidal play, The Best Man, starring James Earl Jones. I asked Jeffrey out to lunch and asked him what he thought of James playing Grandpa in You Can't Take It With You. Jeffrey thought it was a fabulous idea and so did James.”

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Author:Chris Hart

“Even though the play [ The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to make ends meet and to "have a little fun along the way" have a very contemporary feel. The similarity between the The Great Depression and The Great Recession - as well as the gulf between the super-rich and the ordinary Joe - still rings a bell. One of the things this production accentuates is how beautifully Grandpa and his family accept all kinds of people - rich or poor, black or white - and the best thing that can happen to you is to be part of a loving family.”

“"You're really not that old." You know, the old grandpa thing - Grandpa Rossy with KB [Kris Bryant] and Rizz [Anthony Rizzo]. That's how everyone treats me.”

Knows Treats Grandpa Old You

Author:David Ross

“They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way.”

Way Voice Mountain Grandmother My Grandmother Hymns Grandpa

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“I'm very liberal in some ways, and then I'm very conservative in others. I once asked my grandpa, "Are you a Republican or a Democrat?" He said, "I'm a Democrat, but I'm saving up to be a Republican."”

Way Said Republican Democrat Conservative Saving Grandpa Saving Up

Author:Kenny Chesney

“I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."”

Computer Illiterate Grandpa Grandkids

Author:Scott Glenn

“I thought Mike Pence, upon reflection to me, came across a little bit like your favorite aunt who refuses, in spite of first-person evidence that grandpa has been drunk and disorderly in public, that, says, no, no, grandpa would never do that, even though grandpa is being taken off in handcuffs.”

Taken Like You Reflection Evidence Drunk Spite Aunt Grandpa Your Favorite

Author:Mark Shields

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

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

Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

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

Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.”

People Knows Mean Loses Know How Filled Sorry Void Grandma Grandpa

Author:Amaury Nolasco

“My grandpa was a preacher.”

Preacher Grandpa

Author:Dolly Parton

“When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.”

Years Littles Shows Funeral Entertainers Grandpa

Author:Natalie Portman

“Elephants and grandchildren never forget.”

Source: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

“Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.”

Stills Country Music Is Daughter Bigger Glad Grandpa Your Daughter Bigger And Better

Author:Shania Twain

“We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.”

Way Needs Years Moral Willing Judgment Years Ago Grandma Grandpa Moral Judgment

Author:Steven Tyler

“I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.”

Grandchildren Grandpa My Grandchildren

Author:Ben Vereen

“But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.”

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Book:The little house treasury

Source: The little house treasury

“A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.”

Source: Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother

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

Source: Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother

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

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”

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Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.”

Seems Past Ability Rocks Grandparent Grandma Grandpa

Book:The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

“I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe”

Sometimes Imagine Heard Grandpa

Author:Roald Dahl

“Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.”

Years Lasts Paint Hips Broke Last Year Grandma Grandpa My Grandma Toenails

Author:David Ebershoff

“Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!”

Turns Hearing Aids Grandpa Hearing Aids

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.”

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Book:Texas Two-Step

Source: Texas Two-Step

“I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.”

Action Past Hate I Hate My Future My Past Down The Road Grandpa Messing Up

Book:Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary

Source: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary

“We did all the standard camp numbers: "Down By The Aegean," "I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa," "This Land is Minos's Land.”

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Book:The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

“I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, "No, but he and Ken got married last week." Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check.”

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Book:Totally Joe

Source: Totally Joe

“Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?”

I Can Asks Pieces Ask Me Making Love Grandpa

Book:The View from Saturday

Source: The View from Saturday

“In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.”

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Author:Stephen Ambrose

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

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Author:Erma Bombeck

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