Top 100 Grandparent Quotes
#1. A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
Erma Bombeck
#2. My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
Karan Johar
#3. Once while vacationing at my grandparent's house in Rajasthan, we were sleeping on the roof and I spotted an object hovering around in the sky - kind of a UFO. It totally spooked me out. I couldn't sleep for days after that.
Nimrat Kaur
#4. Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.
Rosanne Cash
#5. I love being a grandparent. I'm one of those you want to avoid - I pull out the iPhone and say, 'Hey, wanna see my camera roll?'
Susan Isaacs
#6. A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.
Lois Wyse
#7. I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.
Wallace Stegner
#8. 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
#9. If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is not having a second chance at parenthood!
Eda LeShan
#10. When it comes to parental alienation or grandparent alienation, we walk around with the overwhelming emptiness of a child's absence while carrying the heaviness of their sweet and irreplaceable memory ...
Donna Lynn Hope
#11. Realize that grieving is a process. It doesn't stop just because the family wants the parent or grandparent to get on with life.
Lisa Wingate
#12. The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to stop it. I grew up living with my Mum, brother and Nana (my mum's mum), so it felt like I lost a parent rather than a grandparent. It makes you realise the fragility of life.
Nikki Sanderson
#13. The house had the stale smell of a grandparent. When you're a kid, the smell gives you the creeps; when you're an adult, you want to bottle it and let it out with a cup of cocoa on a bad day.
Harlan Coben
#14. Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.
Kevin Whately
#15. Being a grand-kid, you can so easily regress. All the ages you ever were are all recalled by the grandparent in a shimmery love-haze, like those blurred faces on tv, in which identities have been disguised.
Joyce Carol Oates
#16. The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
Sam Levenson
#17. 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
#18. However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.
Bob Filner
#19. How do you know someone is a grandparent? They've got milk stains on every shirt from burping babies. Their pants are worn out at the knees from crawling around giving pony rides. They have 2,842 pictures of the grandkids on their smart phone and not one photo of their spouse.
Regina Brett
#20. Respect elders; protect children. This I do believe. As a young man it is sometimes, in a charitable sense, difficult to shake the sentiment that every elderly person is my grandparent, and every child is my child.
Criss Jami
#22. Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.
Caroline Sunshine
#23. 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.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#24. I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
Vanilla Ice
#25. 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
#26. Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they recognise that many people believe in a form of racial purity. And it is from that belief that prejudice starts.
Tom Paulin
#27. In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
Margaret Mead
#28. It's often said when a baby is born so is a grandparent; well, for me it turned out that when I was born it was also the birth of a Ding Dong.
Lisa A. Tortorello
#29. 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.
Teresa Bloomingdale
#30. Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
Gabriel Basso
#31. It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.
Mike Krzyzewski
#32. Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do.
Anita Silvey
#33. A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight.
Erma Bombeck
#34. What sorts of people dig up a black grandparent and then demand special privileges? What does it mean when these same people spew racist abuse at the rest of their ancestry? What does it signify when a society rewards them for this type of behavior?
Daniel Greenfield
#35. In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis
#36. To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.
Robert Breault
#37. "You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.
Gene Perret
#38. A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect.
Erma Bombeck
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.
Shooter Jennings
#42. 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
#43. If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent.
Barack Obama
#44. 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
#45. Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.
Alvin Francis Poussaint
#46. They want the PK to dress like a grandparent and behave like Jesus. But they also seem to wait for the time when the pastor's daughter makes out and the son drinks beer.
Barnabas Piper
#47. I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.
Anna Quindlen
#48. My grandparents came worked hard, and I believe they never regretted their decision to come here and make a new start.
Samuel Alito
#49. I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#50. In a family, parents, grandparents and children feel at home; no one is excluded. If someone has a problem, even a serious one, even if he brought it upon himself, the rest of the family comes to his assistance; they support him ... Should the same not happen in society?
Pope Francis
#51. You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.
Sam Levenson
#52. Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother.
Margaret Whitlam
#53. 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
#54. When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.
Lance Henriksen
#55. It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
Horace Mann
#56. Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
Samuel Johnson
#57. Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.
Lois Wyse
#58. To know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
Elizabeth Goudge
#59. Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.
Gottfried Keller
#60. It's impossible for me to hear the words quadruple murder suicide without thinking of my grandparents.
Anthony Jeselnik
#62. Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.
Susan L. Taylor
#64. If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.
Edith Konecky
#65. I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax.
Lauren Groff
#66. Grandpa did everything at his own pace, a speed that my sister and I referred to as 'when snails attack.' ... My grandparents' house was only about ten miles from ours, but the ride there would necessitate sandwiches packed for the trip, and several books to keep us occupied.
Jenny Lawson
#67. Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
Susan Sontag
#68. My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.
Max Bemis
#69. I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
Donna Lynn Hope
#70. My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.
Laura Lippman
#71. There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.
Mary Margaret McBride
#72. The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.
Margaret Mead
#73. If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.
William J. Clinton
#74. 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.
Tad Williams
#75. Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
Alice Walker
#76. I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#77. Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.
Rose Leslie
#78. I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
Margaret Mead
#79. I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.
Michael Stipe
#80. Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.
James Cook
#81. Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
Margaret Mead
#82. They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.
Camara Laye
#83. It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.
Ellen Goodman
#84. We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.
Sam Wineburg
#85. We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.
Jimmy Carter
#86. Then my abuelita booms out words, loud and clear. She always says the words should be round as dimes and as wild as blossoms blooming.
Tony Johnston
#87. I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.
Kellan Lutz
#88. Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.
Os Guinness
#89. 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.
Jack Jason
#90. In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
Lucretius
#91. You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.
Mallory Ortberg
#92. All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.
Hephzibah Menuhin
#93. Grandparents get older and they can't do things for themselves anymore. I'm gonna struggle with that. Because I hate depending on people to do anything for me.
Blake Griffin
#94. Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other 'grown-ups - grandparents, neighbors, teachers, ministers, employers, political leaders, and untold others who touch their lives directly and indirectly.
Hillary Clinton
#95. If your grandparents are Mexican, you can relate through the roots of the show [Top Chef], through the food, through the traditions and find yourself and get to know yourself too.
Ana Claudia Talancon
#96. The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.
Mell Lazarus
#97. I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that was partly because I liked Ordnance Survey maps and when I used to go to my grandparents' house from Southampton Station one went past the headquarters of the Ordnance Survey.
Jonathan Meades
#98. We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents
Pope Francis
#99. [On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents ...
Dorothy Parker
