Grandchildren Grandparents Quotes

#1. They claimed it was for the sake of their grandparents and grandchildren, but it was of course for the sake of their grandparent's grandchildren, and their grandchildren's grandparents.

Douglas Adams

#2. 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

#3. On the contrary, if grandparents want to make a positive difference in their grandchildren's lives, they must have a plan.

Tim Kimmel

#4. Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon.
"Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.

Judith Merkle Riley

#5. Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these years.

Anne Lamott

#6. To teach is to learn ... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

Richard Pousette-Dart

#7. Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.

Samantha Bee

#8. Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

Benjamin Spock

#9. Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps.

Robin Marantz Henig

#10. All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

Genesis P-Orridge

#11. I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have been fortunate enough to see multiple generations of families come see my shows.

Sam Bush

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

Margaret Mead

#13. The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.

Geoffrey Wood

#14. A Grandmother thinks of her grandchildren day and night, even when they are not with her.She will always love them more than anyone would understand.

Karen Gibbs

#15. You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know how to get it right. Plus, once you turn fifty, you kind of stop giving a shit what others think.

Liz Fenton

#16. The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#17. Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.

Jay Kesler

#18. Some things, however, should happen in the correct order. Shoes go on after socks. Peanut butter is applied after the bread comes out of the toaster, not before. And grandchildren are born after their grandparents.

Rysa Walker

#19. Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. The world is in me and you are not even in the world yet.

Warren Eyster

#21. 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.

Arthur Hertzberg

#22. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

Claudette Colbert

#23. She tore her eyes open and gasped in surprise when Jake took Devlin's cock in his mouth and began to suck.

Olivia Cunning

#24. My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.

Billy Crystal

#25. As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#26. I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

Jared Taylor

#27. Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

Leif Enger

#28. Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

Jimmy Carter

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

Sam Levenson