188 Grandchildren Quotes

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Famous Grandchildren Quotes

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. — Lois Wyse

Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. — Gene Perret

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids. — Tony Campolo

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. — Sam Levenson

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren. - Brock Yates

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren. — Brock Yates

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. - Gore Vidal

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. — Gore Vidal

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. — Doug Larson

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. — Alex Haley

Elephants and grandchildren never forget. — Andy Rooney

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. — Lois Wyse

So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons. — Pat Boone

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. — Margaret Mead

With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same. — Kevin Whately

The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you. — Dom DeLuise

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

Short Grandchildren Quotes

  • You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. — Albert Einstein
  • Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung
  • Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. — Rembrandt
  • I think, often, child actors are, like, overlooked a little bit. — Sadie Sink
  • A better world begins with our children. Our boys and, crucially, our girls. — Ursula von der Leyen
  • When kids come on the dance floor it’s time for elders to go to the bed. — Vijay Kedia
  • Don’t raise your kids to be bullies. This shit is heartbreaking and preventable. — Elliot Page
  • The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren. — Doug Larson
  • When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. — Ogden Nash
  • On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town. — Gene Perret

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Love For Grandchildren Quotes

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. — Mother Teresa

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

Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people. And so I'm happy if I'm with Ann; I'm happier if I'm also with my family and my grandchildren. — Mitt Romney

Like many dads I know, I've long been motivated in all aspects of my life by my love for my children - and my desire to make the world better a better place for them, my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren. — Thomas Carper

I Love My Grandchildren Quotes

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. — Astrid Lindgren

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. — Bill Cosby

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. — Susan Strasberg

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids. — Robert Breault

I would love to leave my children and grandchildren a nicer world than the one I am going to leave them. But bearing in mind that I was born in the world of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, the legacy I leave them might not be as terrible as the legacy my parents and grandparents left to me. — Amos Oz

I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it. — Omar Sharif

I think a law clerk told me about this tumblr and also explained to me what Notorious RBG was a parody on. And now my grandchildren love it, and I try to keep abreast of the latest that's on the tumblr. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Finally [Indira Ganhi] called a beautiful dark little boy who was playing on the lawn, and embracing him tenderly, murmured, 'This is my grandchild; this is the man I love most in the world.' It was a strange sensation to watch this very powerful woman embracing a child. — Oriana Fallaci

Say yes, Jenny. Promise you'll marry me. Promise you'll still be here, driving me crazy and loving me when we're little and old and surrounded by grandchildren. Promise that you'll let me love you until I take my last breath. Promise. — Maggie Osborne

My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect. — Andrew Card

My Grandchildren Quotes

How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing. — David Attenborough

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. — Paul D. Boyer

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren. — Ellen Barkin

I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist. — Katie McGrath

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much. — Bob Newhart

My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people. — Imelda Marcos

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren. — Mitt Romney

My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren. — Simon Wiesenthal

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

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. — Gene Perret

Children And Grandchildren Quotes

Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren. — Heinrich Himmler

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better. — Mitt Romney

Live your life. Do the dishes. Do the laundry. Take your kids to kindergarten. Raise your children and your grandchildren. Take care of the community in which you live. Make all of that your path, and follow your path with heart. — Dipa Ma

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

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both. — E. B. White

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. — D. H. Lawrence

It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom. — Joko Widodo

Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in. — Lisa Loeb

A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren. — Elizabeth May

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures. — Chaka Fattah

Grandchildren And Grandparents Quotes

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren. — Grandma Moses

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. — Gene Perret

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

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. — Vaughn J Featherstone

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. — Gene Perret

I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with. — Gene Perret

Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha. — Hal Boyle

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all. — Fanny Fern

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

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. — William Osler

Grandmother And Grandchildren Quotes

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. — Paulette Alden

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet. — Gene Perret

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. — Gene Perret

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense. — Gene Perret

Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap. — Liv Ullmann

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine. — Gene Perret

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what. — Sam Levenson

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren. — Art Linkletter

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left. — Gene Perret

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. — J. Norman Collie

Grandkids Quotes

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed. — Michio Kaku

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

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

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to. — Herman Cain

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution? — Matt Damon

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots! — Michael Landon

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

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids. — Ayelet Waldman

What happens when you put all your money into your home? Everybody's going to want to move in, whereas rich people set money off for their great-great grandkids. They got money that's circling for itself. — Redman

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

Great Grandkids Quotes

I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress. — Colleen Atwood

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family. — Conor McGregor

Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids. — Robert Redford

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

Great Grandchildren Quotes

I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone. — Sean Penn

Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy. — Tracy Morgan

Thierry Henry my grandchildren, hopefully my great grandchildren gonna have to hear about him because is super, absolutely super, top guy, top player — Martin Tyler

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. — Sparky Anderson

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren? — Richard Rorty

My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather. — Leonard Marx

"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive. — Gene Perret

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have. — Ian Somerhalder

When you look into the eyes of your children and grandchildren, when you picture their greatness and potential, do you feel that they are getting the education that is up to par with who they were born to become? — Oliver DeMille

I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy. — Tracy Morgan

Grandson Quotes

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. — Abraham Lincoln

Son of a priest, grandson of the devil — Greek Proverbs

I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No... but I served in a company of heroes.' — Richard Winters

I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent? — William Butler Yeats

How far would you go to protect your family? I'm a father, I'm a son, I'm a grandson, and I'm a husband. If someone were to hurt the women in my life and the law didn't take care of it, what would I do? Pretty awful things. — Jason Momoa

I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much. — Prince William

May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal. — Bette Davis

My grandfather drove a camel, my father drove a camel, I drove a Mercedes, my son drove a Land Rover and my grandson will drive a Land Rover, but my great-grandson will drive a camel. — Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny. — Stephanie Beacham

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity. — Charles Colson

Granddaughter Quotes

I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family. — Debbie Reynolds

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. — Zora Neale Hurston

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. — Ann Romney

I am the granddaughter of an English woman. I love England and her people and, regardless of politics, consider you to be family... and always will. — Nicola Sturgeon

I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever — Elizabeth Warren

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! — Kerry Washington

I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her. - Bones to Cat's grandparents — Jeaniene Frost

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris. — Paris Hilton

Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under Sharia law. — Thomas Sowell

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love. — Billy Crystal

Grandparent Quotes

There is no death, only a change of worlds. — Chief Seattle

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. — Sam Levenson

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. — Jason Alexander

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. — Alan Dundes

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. - Bryan Clay

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. — Bryan Clay

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you. — Studs Terkel

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family. — Henry B. Eyring

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain. — Jeff Ross

Love your parents because you don’t know what will happen everyday. — Khabib Nurmagomedov

Grandparents Quotes

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. — Ralph Ellison

To be a good father, you must first be a good son. — Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. — Eric Hoffer

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. — Gail Buckley

None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends. — Dan Buettner

A Grandmother is a safe haven. — Suzette Haden Elgin

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. — Suzanne La Follette

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child. — David Suzuki

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one — Zack de la Rocha

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More Grandchildren Quotes

I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. — Nikita Khrushchev

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? — David Attenborough

We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences. — Ban Ki-moon

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. — Gaylord Nelson

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. — Lois Wyse

When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time. — Gary Haugen

I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war. — James David Vance

If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful. — Dick Gregory

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. ...Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave. — Mark Batterson

Lots of people have written to say ‘Bake Off’ has inspired them to bake with their children. I feel proud about that; it’s exactly what I used to do with mine. — Mary Berry

America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand while others beat us at our own game, our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We must now establish a sense of urgency. — Charles M. Vest

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people. — John Templeton

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