Top 36 Quotes About Grandparents And Grandchildren
#1. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
Claudette Colbert
#2. 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
#3. Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
Margaret Mead
#4. The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Many long months and years seemed to have passed since the room had made up its mind never to welcome any visitors.
Haruki Murakami
#12. I'm a generous host, but I'm a difficult and interfering guest. When I go around to other people's houses and they're cooking, I'm always telling them what to do.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
#13. I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.
Sri Chinmoy
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
Benjamin Spock
#17. then he would feel like he was finally going crazy. It never happened though. Always the tease, never the relief.
Luke Smitherd
#19. 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
#20. On the contrary, if grandparents want to make a positive difference in their grandchildren's lives, they must have a plan.
Tim Kimmel
#21. The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Huey P. Newton
#22. People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
R.L. Stine
#23. The world is in me and you are not even in the world yet.
Warren Eyster
#24. Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living.
Warren Ellis
#25. 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
#26. How to explain this? A shadow kytaen becomes, in a way, the shadow of their keeper, and when the keeper chooses it to, the shadow will detach itself like It did just then.'
'What, like Peter Pan?
Giselle Simlett
#27. She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
Jenny Downham
#28. A riveting and realistic portrayal of space travel gone wrong, and of a crew who must fight for their survival. Bones Burnt Black is exciting, and expertly told. A must-listen.
J. C. Hutchins
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public.
Simon McBurney
#33. 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
#34. I'm not good with these types of girls, I had thought as Avena lay there in the middle of the bed, crying silently, trying to cover herself up. I always ended up ruining them.
L. Jayne
#35. Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.
Mitch Albom
