Grandkids Quotes

• 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

  Growing Up, Nerd, Want

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• 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

  Pride, Men, Thinking

  "Jonah Hill Talks ‘The Sitter,’ Weight Loss And Disgust With Kardashians". Interview With Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.

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• 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

  People

  "Herman Cain Gives a Fiery Speech to Tea Party Rally in Tampa". thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. August 26, 2012.

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• Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

  Doug Larson

  Grandma, Grandmother, Fighting

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• An 83-year-old male prostitute was arrested. Police say he only charged $20 an hour, but for most of that time, he just talked about his grandkids.

  Craig Ferguson

  Years, Police, Males

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• To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

  Robert Breault

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandpa

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

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Self

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Kindness, Children, Life Lesson

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

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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

  Margaret Mead

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• 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

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

  Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.25, The Floating Press

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• Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

  Art Linkletter

  Grandma, Patriotic, Grandmother

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• Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

  Lewis Mumford

  Family, Father, Grandmother

  The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)

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• Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

  Gore Vidal

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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

  Susan Strasberg

  Grandma, Home, Grandmother

  Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”

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• We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

  Ogden Nash

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

  Pam Brown

  Wise, Mother, Grandma

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

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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

  Gene Perret

  Children, Grandmother, Grandparent

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• 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

  Beautiful, Baby, Grandma

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• On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• 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

  Grandma, Believe, Grandmother

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