Quotes About Having Grandkids

#1. Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents.

Willard Scott

#2. I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.

Dustin Hoffman

#3. Grandkids are the kids we all should've had before we had kids.

Lou Silluzio

#4. When people hear I have six kids and 16 grandkids, they think, 'Oh, boy, you must get a lot of stories from them.' I don't. It's not like I'm behind the sofa in the living room taking notes while the grandkids carry on.

Jerry Spinelli

#5. I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

Lance Bass

#6. I told them that I'd need a larger casket."

I don't want to know. "Why?"

"Because I plan on spending the majority of my afterlife turning over in my grave while Elizabeth Adler rubs the fact that she already has three grandkids and a handsome son-in-law in my face.

Adrianne Brooks

#7. I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, 'No, it's for me.'

Chris Lilley

#8. Neil Young sang, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." I say it's better to burn slow and see your grandkids.

Austin Kleon

#9. I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.

Mike Pompeo

#10. I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me ... your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"

Mike Tyson

#11. If you don't tell your kids/grandkids what God has done for you, don't expect their hearts to be captured by your God! Worst

James MacDonald

#12. It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.

Regina Brett

#13. When you're a kid, you think, "Well, I will grow up and I will get a wife and we will have kids and then we will have grandkids." My life has a different shape. That is weird, but there are things about it that are exciting.

Guy Branum

#14. More often than not, my reference point is not the kids or the grandkids but myself when I was that age. I remember the days at Hartranft Elementary and Stewart Junior High in Norristown.

Jerry Spinelli

#15. Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us?

Feist

#16. My charity is called 'Grand Kids.' People keep thinking it's 'Grandkids.'

Curtis Granderson

#17. I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.

Phil Robertson

#18. 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

#19. The Romney-Ryan plan would replace the guarantee of Medicare with a voucher that wouldn't keep up with costs. Congressman Ryan says that he wants Medicare to be around for his grandkids. Well, if that's the case, he had better vote for Barack Obama!

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#20. I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.

Ted Cruz

#21. I'm kind of crazy with karma. I really believe that everything you do revisits you, so, I'm really adamant about the kids seeing the grandparents, so like, I can see my grandkids, you know what I mean?

Joel Madden

#22. I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

Dick Van Dyke

#23. Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'

Teddy Sears

#24. It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world.

Luke Donald

#25. And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?'

Christy Haubegger

#26. I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

Jonah Hill

#27. Doran set it in front of her with a grin that made her want to slap him so hard his grandkids would feel it.

Melissa Landers

#28. I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

Guy Clark

#29. I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.

Scott Douglas

#30. Forget about writing to Penthouse.
This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.

Suzanne Brockmann

#31. Because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were.

Max Brooks

#32. To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.

Joseph M. Kyrillos

#33. When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'People' magazine thought I was sexy!'

Gerard Butler

#34. My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.

Gene Perret

#35. I made the grandkids laugh. John Madden finally liked me!

Frank Caliendo

#36. Perhaps, one of our greatest challenges as a nation, as a people, as human beings making sure that our grandkids can live on this Earth.

Barbara Boxer