Being Grandparents Quotes

#1. Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.

Bruce Feiler

#2. When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

Michael King

#3. That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

Toby Stephens

#4. Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

Tim Berners-Lee

#5. As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.

Michael C. Hall

#6. In various surveys, nearly three-quarters of grandparents say that being a grandparent is the single most important and satisfying thing in their life. Most say being with their grandkids is more important to them than traveling or having financial security.

Lesley Stahl

#7. for Sydney and pay his respects.

James Patterson

#8. My grandparents would never admit to being Tasmanian, but I think it's really great and funny. But I guess, in the past, Tasmanians just weren't quite accepted. You had that lazy reference to them being felons.

Jessie Cave

#9. There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.

Bobby Davro

#11. Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

Paul Ryan

#12. A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past."
"It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.

Diane Duane

#13. My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.

Nikki Sixx

#14. Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

Margaret Mead

#15. I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It's not been a bad life.

Dennis Hopper

#16. I was just thinking about how my grandparents, who raised me, would be considered "white trash," whatever that means - mostly for being racists, I'd say. And how, as a child, I wanted to be like them, and identified with them culturally.

Shane McCrae

#17. So far the only good things I have seen to come out of this recent technological renaissance are video-chatting with your grandparents, online dating, and being able to attend traffic school on your computer.

Amy Poehler

#18. Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

#19. When our expectations match our companion's capabilities, there is less stress for both parties. This is the secret to improving the dementia caregiving experience.

Judy Cornish

#20. For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized in the very early sixties. Me, being just a small boy and being shuffled around between my mother and grandparents, I never knew her.

Nikki Sixx

#21. Truth is an axe. Without judgement it's swung in great circles, wounding everybody,

Mark Lawrence

#22. I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

Dakota Fanning

#23. In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.

Iris Johansen

#24. My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

Bayard Rustin

#25. Being Jewish means loving something that's gone. Your parents, your grandparents, the place they came from. Jerusalem itself. Creation.

Michael Davidow

#26. I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

Ralph Ellison