Browsing Topic Best Grandparent Quotes

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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

The Baby Boom has spawned an even bigger Grandma Boom. For every baby born, two women turn into grandmas.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

I think parenting is one of the most important jobs, because you can hit two or three generations with the values in your house and the traditions you establish. But I don’t think I’m very good at it, and I don’t know anybody who thinks they’re very good at it. Probably almost everyone gets an A in grandparenting, but in parenting, if you get a B- you’re doing pretty good.

They pampered me, especially my grandmother … I loved her with all my heart.

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

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.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect.

I love seeing young girls and their parents and grandparents at my concerts all loving the music from Grease when I perform those songs (and yes, I do perform a bunch of them!).

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

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

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

Children are all unique, so when you’re blending families it’s really important to get to know each individual child… Being a stepparent can be a really incredible opportunity. Sometimes children pay attention and listen to someone who’s not their blood parent. Sometimes I notice how my son Milo learns things from my best friends and people that have been around him, his grandparents and so on, in a way he can’t from his own mum and dad. It takes a village!

Grandparents are God’s gifts to children.

I never really learned the value of money. My father didn’t spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.

It’s intrusive for grandparents to think they’re in charge. It’s manipulative. Also, it’s self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won’t get your mitts on the kid as often.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.

It’s impossible for me to hear the words quadruple murder suicide without thinking of my grandparents.

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents’ house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I’m on ‘Downton Abbey.

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

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

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said ‘We saw your movie.’ ‘Which one?’ I said. He shouted ‘Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn’t like?

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother’s roast turkey.

My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I’ve already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.

Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do.

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.