My Grandfather Quotes

• 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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• My grandfather and I were very close.

  Tea Obreht

  Grandfather

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

  J. Norman Collie

  Grandmother, Men, Grandchildren

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

  Gore Vidal

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

  Dave Barry

  Baby, Grandma, Grandmother

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.54, Rodale

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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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• To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

  Robert Breault

  Dog, Children, Grandmother

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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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• 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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• 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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• I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Reality, Mind, Grandfather

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• There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Children, Father

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1343, BookCaps Study Guides

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

  Alex Haley

  Life, Children, Grandmother

  Reader's Digest, 1987.

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ogden Nash

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

  James Earl Jones

  Grandpa, Grandfather, Inspired

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Grandma, Grandmother

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.36, Open Road Media

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Fathers Day, Future

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

  Andy Rooney

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Elephants

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.182, PublicAffairs

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• My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

  Louis Adamic

  Life, Fathers Day, Grandpa

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• My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

  Indira Gandhi

  Funny, Success, Leadership

  "Taking Charge : Every Woman's Action Guide to Personal, Political and Professional Success". Book by Joan Steinau Lester )p. 76), 1996.

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

  Doug Larson

  Grandma, Grandmother, Fighting

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• If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.

  William J. Clinton

  Commitment, Race, People

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• My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.

  Adam Petty

  Kings, Dad, Grandfather

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