Parents And Grandparents Quotes

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

Sam Levenson

Inspirational, Family, Children

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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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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

Mother, Children, Grandma

Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony

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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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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

Beauty, Summer, Spring

'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ellen DeGeneres

Funny, Life, Birthday

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Henny Youngman

Good Life, Grandma, Drinking

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Don Marquis

Children, Order, Grandparent

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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.'

Jamie Foxx

Grandmother, Grandparent, Southern

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My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.

Eth Clifford

Eye, Men, Sky

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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

Joseph Joubert

Country, Travel, Age

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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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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'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

Billy Crystal

Long, Grandpa, Waiting

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Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

Samuel Johnson

Maturity, Long, Grandparent

Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.72

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It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

Horace Mann

Grandparent, Would Be, Deeds

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Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.

Mary Mapes Dodge

Grandma, Long Ago, Grandparent

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Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

Eda LeShan

Retirement, Attitude, Grandma

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Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them in ways that they did not indulge their own children. Grandfather knows that after the fun and games are over with his adorable grandchildren he can return to the quiet of his own home and peacefully reflect on this phenomenon of fatherhood.

Alvin Francis Poussaint

Fun, Children, Home

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Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Destiny, Blood, Long

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You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

Chief Seattle

Mother, Respect, Children

Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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