Family: Grandparents Quotes

Celebrate the wisdom, warmth, and gentle humor of grandparents with a curated selection of quotes that honor their lasting influence. These words highlight treasured memories, steady guidance, and the unique bond between generations. Whether you seek inspiration for a card, a family gathering, or everyday reflection, these quotes offer comfort and gratitude. Explore heartfelt sentiments that recognize the stories grandparents share and the roots they nurture, reminding us of the care, resilience, and love that connect families.

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"My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!"

Anne Baxter, Actress

Anne Baxter

"Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old"

Mary H. Waldrip, Editor

Mary H. Waldrip

"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers"

Tina Turner, Musician

Tina Turner

"I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

Oprah Winfrey

"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"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

Lord Chesterfield

"As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are"

V. S. Naipaul, Novelist

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

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government"

King George V, Royalty

King George V

"Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made"

Kate Middleton, Celebrity

"My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that"

Erik Estrada, Actor

"What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him"

Roy Haynes, Musician

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

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism"

Lisa Bonet, Actress

Lisa Bonet

"Never have children, only grandchildren"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

Gore Vidal

"Elephants and grandchildren never forget"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

Andy Rooney

"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches"

Jim Carrey, Actor

Jim Carrey

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

Alan Dundes, Educator

"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist

"There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist

"The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent"

Sam Levenson, Author

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

Sam Levenson, Author

"One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer"

Natalie Portman, Actress

Natalie Portman

"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

Arne Jacobsen

"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, Author

Margaret Mahy

"My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know"

Josef Albers, Artist

"But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins"

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author

"When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area"

Mike Love, Musician

"The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother"

Gene Tierney, Actress

Gene Tierney

"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?"

Brad Pitt, Actor

Brad Pitt

"I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one"

Sara Paretsky, Author

Sara Paretsky

"My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know"

James Earl Jones, Actor

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

James Earl Jones, Actor

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