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I'm not that hands-on as a grandfather.
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.
It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.
Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.
I will eat grandfather for dinner.
There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.
Scions of old families who've hit the skids do like to flaunt their illustrious ancestors....
It's hard not to be impressed by my older relatives.
We have started calling him grandfather.
My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.
My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.
Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.
My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.
Grandmother. The true power behind the power.
A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.
I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.
You can call me Grandpa, if that does it for you.
Old folks are the nation.
Know the history of the great ancestors.
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
We have become a grandmother.
My family, my parents are hippies.
Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.
Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.
Disrespectful! My grandmothers are both dead."
"Well, Jesus. What did they die of?"
"Mom always said 'meddling.
There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity.
When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.
Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps.
Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.
The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"
My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.
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.
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised.
A person in search of his ancestors naturally likes to believe the best of them, and the best in terms of contemporary standards. Where genealogical facts are few, and these located in the remote past, reconstruction of family history is often more imaginative than correct.
Your grandparents often found themselves in dark rooms, mapping out each other's bodies, claiming whole countries with their mouths.
In my family, they were all big boozers.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.
My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.
That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.
All fathers who don't read like Guy Fieri.
Your relatives, and mine too, are all dead.
I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.
Parents do the best they can. But my parents are better grandparents than they were parents.
Our ancestors are our children; we peer through a hole in the wall and watch them play in their rooms, and they can't see us.
Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.
Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.
These people who were supposed to be my family, who had conspired to look enough like me to serve as a critique of my appearance ...
We must strive to become good ancestors.
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Grandkids are the kids we all should've had before we had kids.
their own children.
Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief.
I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
I thought grandmothers had to like you. It's a law or something.
Mama' (literally, maternal uncle),
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
All I could think was that grandfathers were supposed to die in beds, in hushed places humming with machines, not in heaps on the sodden reeking ground with ants marching over them, a brass letter opener clutched in one trembling hand.
Maybe our grandmothers weren't as stupid as we thought. The family, volunteer work, religion, shaping the hearts and minds of the next generation-maybe all that can't be reduced to just 'shining floors and wiping noses.'
Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
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.
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
Who wants to be married to a grandfather?
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Healers. My father got to know my mother because on his hunts he would sometimes collect medicinal
I love being a grandparent. I'm one of those you want to avoid - I pull out the iPhone and say, 'Hey, wanna see my camera roll?'
Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.
A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren.
Every house needs a grandmother in it.
When my children were young, one of the treats promised by their grandparents was a ride in Grandad's car.
My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.
Being a grand-kid, you can so easily regress. All the ages you ever were are all recalled by the grandparent in a shimmery love-haze, like those blurred faces on tv, in which identities have been disguised.
They inherited it all. The curse of privilege. Janitors for the ambitions of the dead.
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
My dad. The only parent I have left.
I'm a grandma at heart.
Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.
They think of themselves as your grandparents,' he said. But call them whatever you like. James and Mary?
In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.
Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.
If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
The wants of the grandparents has become the needs of the parents and the rights of the children.
'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
Their parents buried empty coffins
Show some respect. They were your grandparents. -Batman
Just names and dusty frames on the wall to me. -Damien
I take exception to that. There is not a speck of dust collecting on those portraits. -Alfred
My family's a ruling family.
My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.
an unlovely gaggle of contrary old codgers".
My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.
My grandmother raised me for a good portion of my life. She moved to Los Angeles with me to be an actor, so I've always had a connection with an older generation.
My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold with her. They don't make them like that any more.