Grandparent Quotes

No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousandshares ofGeneral Motors or General Electric. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. View quote
Don Marquis
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. View quote
Sam Levenson
If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time. View quote
Shooter Jennings
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. View quote
Toby Stephens
It was one thing for a grandparent to withhold something [...] from a grandchild, quite another for a father to keep it from his son-and for so long. View quote
Ransom Riggs
I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent. View quote
Vanilla Ice
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time. View quote
Abbas Kiarostami
One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent. View quote
C.K. Williams
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. View quote
Bob Filner
Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life. (Kevin Whately)
One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child. View quote
David Suzuki
Beating up Jews (by Jew I mean anyone with a Jew for a grandparent, even one!) won't help, I'm sure, that's just going around in circles, it's a joke, you're only beating around the bush if you don't grab them by the strings [tefillins], if you don't strangle them with them. View quote
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Bernie's particular brand of socialism is probably better described as 'grandparent envy.' View quote
Van Jones