Grandpa Quotes - Page 2

• She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Grandma, Past, Rocks

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.259, Open Road Media

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• It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Relationship, Nature, Grandma

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

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Children, Grandmother

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• But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Easter, Cousin, Horse

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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• I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

  Sammy Hagar

  Kids, Feels, Stills

  "One-time Red Rocker now 'just Sammy'". Interview with Chelsea J. Carter, www.dailyfreeman.com. October 21, 2000.

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  When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Death, Hilarious

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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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• 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

  Basketball, Mean, Grandmother

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• Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

  Debbie Macomber

  Horse, Cowboy, Bulls

  Debbie Macomber (2013). “Texas Two-Step”, p.98, Harlequin

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• My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

  Haruki Murakami

  Asking, Moments, Lifetime

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• I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.

  Ben Vereen

  Grandchildren, My Grandchildren

  "Ben Vereen: Usher’s Godfather Continues to Evolve". Interview with Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• Disgusting. I just found my grandpa's Viagra. I swear, I almost puked from eating so many.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Viagra, Eating, Found

  Twitter post from Oct 06, 2010

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• At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Waiting, Christmas Time, Tinsel

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• Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Happiness

  Ellen Glasgow, (2013). “In This Our Life”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

  Dolly Parton

  Piano, People, Musical

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• All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Cousin, Uncles, Grandma

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.169, Dell

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• How far would you go for someone you love ? Well, when my grandkids ask me how I pledged my love to their grandma, I'll say, I told her I would die for her, after I found out I didn't have an incurable disease. Then, I ran away while grandma was getting her ass kicked by a pregnant woman that grandpa slept with. You never know when you're making a memory.

  Christopher Titus

  Memories, Grandma, Someone You Love

  "Titus / The Test". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• 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

  Baby, Grandma, Grandmother

  Liv Ullmann (1979). “Without Makeup, Liv Ullmann: A Photo-biography”

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• Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.

  David Ebershoff

  Grandma, Years, Lasts

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• My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once, when I was twelve, my mom and I were driving and we saw my grandpa staggering drunk down the street. I asked if we should stop and help him. My mom sadly shook her head and kept driving.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Mom, Drunk, Twelve

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.

  Michael Caine

  School, Boys, Cartoon

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.

  Austin Butler

  Horse, Growing Up, Cowboy

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I think in many ways what my films are about is that search for my grandpa's dentures: for that humanizing narrative that bridges the gap between "us" and "them" to arrive at a "we."

  Brian Lindstrom

  Thinking, Bridges, Narrative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because they all were marrying their first cousins.

  Ishmael Reed

  Cousin, Comedian, Generations

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Brother, Sibling

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