Parents And Grandparents Quotes

• Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

  William Osler

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

  The Principles and Practice of Medicine p. 130. Appleton, New York (1892)

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• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Heart, Grandparent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.276, Penguin

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

  Ogden Nash

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

  Albert Einstein

  Mom, Grandma, Grandmother

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

  Claudette Colbert

  Mother, Grandchildren, Grandpa

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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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  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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• 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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• Beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Art, Nursing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Past, Grandchildren, Giving

  Jay Kesler (1993). “Grandparenting: The Agony and the Ecstasy”, Vine Books

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• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Beautiful, Art

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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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