These Grandchildren quotes will inspire you. Grandchild, the child of a person’s son or daughter.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable and encouraging Grandchildren quotes, Grandchildren sayings, and Grandchildren proverbs.
Best Grandchildren Quotes
- “The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.” ~ Sam Levenson
- “I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.” ~ Mitt Romney
- “Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.” ~ Margaret Mead
- “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 , Grandchildren quotes grandma
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“Elephants and grandchildren never forget.” ~ Andy Rooney
- “Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.” ~ Doug Larson
- “Our children are not going to be just ‘our children’ – they are going to be other people’s husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.” ~ Mary Calderone
- “The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.” ~ Doug Larson
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“Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.” ~ Lois Wyse
- “The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?” ~ David Attenborough
- “The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.” ~ Fred Rogers
- “Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.” ~ Pam Brown
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“Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.” ~ Gene Perret
- “My grandkids believe I’m the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.” ~ Gene Perret
- “Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.” ~ Jimmy Carter
- “What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren.” ~ Vaughn J Featherstone
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“With your own children, you love them immediately – and with grandchildren, it’s exactly the same.” ~ Kevin Whately
- “Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from.” ~ A.M. Homes
- “If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.” ~ Isabel Allende
- “Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.” ~ Warren Beatty
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“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” ~ George Eliot
- “I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where every day they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.” ~ George Voinovich
- “The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “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
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“I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren, and of course with my wife.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “The great thing about baseball is when you’re done, you’ll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I’ll tell them I had amnesia.” ~ Sparky Anderson
- “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 , Grandchildren quotes grandparents
- “If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.” ~ Lois Wyse
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“On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.” ~ Gene Perret
- “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.” ~ John Lennon
- “Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.” ~ Erica Jong
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“Your sons weren’t made to like you. That’s what grandchildren are for.” ~ Jane Smiley
- “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
- “When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.” ~ Ogden Nash
- “What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars worth of pleasure.” ~ Gene Perret
- “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
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“Never have children, only grandchildren.” ~ Gore Vidal
- “Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.” ~ Jenny Shipley
- “I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead, I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren.” ~ Astrid Lindgren
- “We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.” ~ Jim Clyburn
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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
- “We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.” ~ Phyllis Grissim-Theroux , Grandchildren quotes blessing
- “I don’t want my grandchildren to go through what I went through” ~ Art Modell
- “If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.” ~ Helen Thomas
- “If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great-grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.” ~ Paul D. Boyer
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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
- “If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!” ~ Hannah Whitall Smith
- “Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.” ~ Fanny Fern
- “Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.” ~ Alex Haley
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“Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.” ~ Claudette Colbert
- “When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities – locally, nationally, and globally – that share the characteristics of all successful communities.” ~ William J. Clinton
- “Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.” ~ Art Linkletter
- “I’m most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don’t have that, you really don’t have very much.” ~ Bob Newhart
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“Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.” ~ Gore Vidal
- “Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They’re supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That’s the world I grew up in.” ~ Lisa Loeb
- “The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.” ~ Dennis Cardoza
- “Since the new film has been out, I’m doing quite a lot but then in July, I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such.” ~ Jeremy Bulloch
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“Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.” ~ Gene Perret
- “Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it’s used in a crime. [On keeping guns]” ~ Michael D. Barnes
- “I don’t put off any time with my grandchildren. I don’t put off a thing.” ~ Lynn Redgrave
- “At this stage, I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.” ~ Margaret Mahy
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“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “My mother said, Don’t worry about what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you’ve done well.” ~ Lord Mountbatten
- “An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.” ~ Gene Perret
