Grandparent Quotes
Grandparent Quote of the day
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.
So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one
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.
A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight.
I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren.
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.
Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!
The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.
Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children are prepared for the financial world they are going to face.
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.
I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.
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.
Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.
It's impossible for me to hear the words quadruple murder suicide without thinking of my grandparents.
I think immigration has been one of the vital things about the growth of America. I'm the product of grandparents who all immigrated from Greece. I hope eventually we have proper immigration.
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.
My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'
Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
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.
Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past
Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that often.
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.
Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!