A Grandchild Quotes

#1. I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

Aasif Mandvi

#2. I think the power of a grandchild is it taps an instinct that people later in life also have towards ... the world of nonprofits or charities. They want to leave a better place.

David Eisenhower

#3. Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

Abbas Kiarostami

#4. A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.

Bill Cosby

#5. Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild's ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details.

Fredrik Backman

#6. A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

T. Berry Brazelton

#7. Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

Sharon Draper

#8. One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.

C. K. Williams

#9. Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

David Whyte

#10. It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,

Gertrude Stein

#11. [When told that her grandchild had her nose:] I didn't get this nose until I was thirty-four.

Joan Rivers

#12. I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.

Caitlyn Jenner

#13. Jeb Bush welcomed his fourth grandchild. The new Bush grandchild is happy, healthy, and will be running for president in 2048.

Conan O'Brien

#14. A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

Wendell Berry

#15. Few books I had read so directly and wholly addressed that fundamental fact of existence: all organisms, whether goldfish or grandchild, die.

Paul Kalanithi

#16. At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Then, wham! My first grandchild was born... I was jolted, blindsided by a wallop of loving more intense than anything I could remember or had ever imagined.

Lesley Stahl

#18. I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE IT UP TO A CHILD TO DECIDE TO EAT JESUS. I HAVE THE HIGHEST RESPECT FOR WHATEVER YOU DO, BUT MY GRANDCHILD IS NOT GOING TO EAT JESUS. I'M SORRY. THAT IS OUT OF THE QUESTION. HERE'S WHAT I'LL DO FOR YOU. I'LL GIVE YOU THE BAPTISM. THAT'S ALL I CAN DO FOR YOU.

Philip Roth

#19. Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Dante Alighieri

#20. The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and
will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.

George S. Clason

#21. The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

Kevin DeYoung

#22. One of the joys of being a grandparent is giving your grandchild caffeinated sugary drinks late in the day, and sending them home. Do you have any idea how many years I had to wait for that?

Neil Leckman

#23. I've learned ... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

Andy Rooney

#24. Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament to how her grandmother made love to hurricane and calmed the storm.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#25. In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

Margaret Mead

#26. 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

#27. Grandad has a long and earnest conversation with his grandchild. He says, you are noisy and wiggly and will be sent back if you don't pull herself together ... The baby smiles complacently. She has him exactly where she wants him.

Pam Brown

#28. Isn't that the best of all life's ages, an old man thinks as he looks at his grandchild. When a boy is just big enough to know how the world works but still young enough to refuse to accept it. Noah

Fredrik Backman

#29. Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not obliged to live on through what I pass down to others.

Tom Robbins

#30. I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?

Hillary Clinton

#31. My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

Laura Schlessinger

#32. Hell of a thing when a man's hatred for another is greater than his love for his grandchild.

Lorraine Heath

#33. Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

Gore Vidal

#34. He has little use for scholars, but you are his sole grandchild, and as such, he is willing to overlook your failings as long as you conduct yourself as a princess of the court during your time of service. Do not disappoint him, Andromeda. Your grandfather's mercy is not endless.

Nalini Singh

#35. It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

Brandy Norwood

#36. When I'm laid in my coffin, I want you to put a picture of my grandchild to the right of me and and a picture of my daughter to my left. That way they will be buried with me.

Jeanne Calment

#37. Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

Rembrandt

#38. We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#39. It's a grandmother's privilege never to have to show her grandchild who she was before she became a grandmother.

Fredrik Backman