Great Grandpa Quotes

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.

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.

We did all the standard camp numbers: "Down By The Aegean," "I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa," "This Land is Minos's Land.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

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

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

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

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

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.

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.

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

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!

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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

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.