Best Grandparent Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.”

“Gabriel's face was leathery from the sun, clean with honesty, and framed by a thick beard that was striped black and white like a badger's hide. He was tall, sometimes formidably so, but children tended to forget that when he hunched down on his knees. He did that whenever he could, so that their eyes were level.”

Compassion Kindness Honesty Grandfather Grandparent Face

Book:The Wake Up

Source: The Wake Up

“We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.”

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox. The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides. The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun. The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus. The moral of the story? Kids are smart.”

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“What might our descendants wish we had done better for them?”

Children Environment Future Climate Legacy Grandparent Descendants Ancestors

Book:The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

Source: The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

“The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.”

Love Death Grief Childhood Grandparent

Author:Aliki

“-Si apoi? - E tarziu, imi raspundea bunicul, si mainile cu pielita mototolita se rasuceau una intr-alta, se cuibareau ca sa se incalzeasca. E tarziu, imi spun eu, si ma pomenesc frecandu-mi palmele la fel ca bunicul meu”

Childhood Grandparent

Book:Cartea Mironei

Source: Cartea Mironei

“Look, Anna,” she says in a panic, “I’ve raised you close to center. Don’t let anyone pull you to the outer edges.” She rushes to our front-room window. “Your grandfather is here. No matter what he says, don’t let him draw you into his imaginary world.”

Fantasy Imaginary Grandfather Grandparent Visitors Grandpa Centered Zonked

Book:Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

“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.”

Parent Perfect Childhood Grandparent No Fear Have No Fear Parents And Grandparents Perfect Parents Just Love Me

Author:Melanie Laurent

“Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.”

Children Jobs Lasts Parent Class Economy Modern Middle Building Understood Our Children Investment Middle Class Grandparent Billionaire Rebuilding Parents And Grandparents

Author:Martin O'Malley

“There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.”

Ifs Knows Children Uncomfortable Apocalypse Grandparent Zombie Surviving Zombie Apocalypse

Author:Amity Shlaes

“My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!”

World Car Safe Careful Drivers Grandparent Grandma Parking Parking Lot Doughnut My Grandma Car Rental

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook, and I would always help her - whether it was cracking eggs or stirring the green beans. It takes me back there.”

Helping Parent Green Raised Cooks Kitchen Grandmother Eggs Take Me Southern Traveled Grandparent My Grandmother Beans Stirring Take Me Back Green Beans

Author:Hillary Scott

“The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.”

Long Different Together Nations Parent Common Vision Lifetime Bounds Grandparent Different Peoples

Author:Trent Lott

“I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.”

World Wells War Whole Values Culture Poor Destroyed War Of The Worlds World War I Apartment Grandparent Attics European History German History Old Values

Author:Lisel Mueller

“I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.”

Long Parent Week Long Time Fishing Texas Hunting Uncles Grandparent Time Away Hunting And Fishing

Author:RJ Mitte

“My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.”

Thinking House Dad My Dad Grandparent Hbo Switching Abbey Pbs Joking Around Sneaking Out Grandparents House

Author:Allison Williams

“Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.”

Whole Phases Grandparent

Author:Kevin Whately

“We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?”

Years Extras Grandparent

Author:Justin Zackham

“We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.”

Kids Past Known Havens Our Past Grandparent

Author:Sam Wineburg

“I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.”

Made Strong Social Class Middle Daughter Wave Middle Class Immigrants Individualism Grandparent Argentina Mobility Social Mobility

Author:Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

“It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.”

People Needs Feels Children Wanted Sides Benefits Program Grandparent Both Sides Elderly Need Love

Book:I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan

Source: I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan

“The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.”

Children Mother Father Parent Gratitude Our Children Bills Debt Grandparent Friday Mother And Father Happy Friday Debt Of Gratitude

Author:Nancy Friday

“Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.”

Kids Responsibility Dog Grandparent Nannies

Author:Jason Gann

“I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.”

Feels Stories Today School Remember Mother Father Parent Taken Taught Impact Hearing Ashamed Native Native American Grandparent Mother And Father Reservations Parents And Grandparents

Author:Chaske Spencer

“Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.”

World Age Aging Grandfather Grandparent Educator Parents And Grandparents Grandparents Day Best Grandparents

Book:Grandparents: Then God Created Grandparents and It Was Very Good

Source: Grandparents: Then God Created Grandparents and It Was Very Good

“A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.”

“You deliver 2,000 babies or better - 3,000 by that time. And that's, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then if you take grandparents or grandparents of siblings and aunts and uncles, you know, you get - a 100,000 votes outta that”

People Ifs Knows Three Baby Vote Minimum Uncles Grandparent Aunt Sibling Aunts And Uncles

Author:Tom Coburn

“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.”

Ifs Lessons Died Cancer Smoking Grandparent Lungs Later In Life Payback Lung Cancer

Author:George Clooney

“I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.”

People Life Sometimes Moments Stories Pain Life Is Perfect Worst Laughter Response Judgement Judged Harsh Uncles Grandparent Aunt Hypocrite Showing Up Hanging On

Author:William J. Clinton

“I don`t think the Disney Channel gives us enough credit for the age range Lizzie McGuire actually has. College students come up to me, grandparents, famous people. It`s really funny.”

People Thinking Giving Enough Age Students College Come Up Credit Range Grandparent College Students Disney Channel

Author:Hilary Duff

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

“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

“I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?”

“And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.”

People Mean Kids Stuff Parent Audience Intention Grandparent Demographics

Author:Jerry Garcia

“I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers. One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole "Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!" They were about the personal price and the emotional price.”

“There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied.”

People Past Parent Claims Prejudice Indian Heritage Denied Grandparent Ancestry Past And Present Parents And Grandparents Clouded

Author:Joseph Bruchac

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

South South Africa Grandparent Lithuania

Author:Antony Sher

“No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.”

Share Return Thousand Privilege Grants Electric Grandparent Motor Descendants Effortless General Motors General Electric

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.”

Might Names Talking Late Jew Australia Grandparent Polish

Author:Elliot Perlman

“Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or guinea pig would pass away, and, after burying the body, I'd dig it back up: over and over, until all that remained was a shoddy pelt. It earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people's pets. "Igor," they called me. "Wicked, spooky." But I think my interest was actually fairly common, at least among adolescent boys. At that age, death is something that happens only to animals and grandparents, and studying it is like a science project.”

“The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.”

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.”

Firsts Wisdom Seems Individual Parent Appreciate Rejects Ancestor Grandparent Individual Life

Book:Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

“You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.”

World Ends Fall Parent Responsibility Love You Baby Easier Grandparent Rope Exhaustion Being A Parent Best Of Both Worlds Deeply In Love

Author:Anne Lamott

“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.”

Firsts Language Parent Television Grandparent Sign Language

Author:Jack Jason

“Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."”

Country Decided Islands Grandparent Cuban

Author:Mark Falcoff

“From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today.”

“I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and "wisdom" and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.”

Thinking Able Wish Parent Information Taught Locals Heritage Grandparent Local History

Author:Gary Gygax

“I know that when I look at today’s Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can’t coexist with a strong social safety net; if you’re going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can’t make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it’s an agonizing issue.”

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