Quotes by Grandparent An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. Gene Perret grandparent grandchildren grandmother Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet. Gene Perret grandparent grandmother children Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. Gene Perret grandparent grandchildren people On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town. Gene Perret grandparent grandchildren grandmother Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. Gene Perret grandparent grandchildren grandmother Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be. George Clooney grandparent cancer later-in-life I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me. George Lopez grandparent appreciate people I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us. Gore Vidal phrenology grandparent belief Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up, your whole photography collection could just go away. We can still look at printed photographs of our grandparents. We can physically hold them in our hands and look at it. Gus Van Sant grandparent photography hands Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice. Hank Johnson grandparent prejudice country All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke. Hephzibah Menuhin grandparent roots people I was homeschooled on the road for kindergarten, then went to elementary school and a private Christian school while living with my grandparents until I graduated, and I loved it. But my parents were gone a lot. Hillary Scott grandparent christian school My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook, and I would always help her - whether it was cracking eggs or stirring the green beans. It takes me back there. Hillary Scott grandparent grandmother eggs From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy. Holly Goldberg Sloan elderly grandparent kids It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. Horace Mann grandparent deeds would-be My parents through to my grandparents have seen and experienced all shades of life, the good and the bad, and they always faced every situation fearlessly. We share a unified bond which I also instil in my own family and it is with all of this that I am able to go out and do good work. Hrithik Roshan grandparent shade able Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other “grownups” — grandparents, neighbors, teachers, ministers, employers, political leaders, and untold others who touch their lives directly and indirectly. Hillary Clinton grandparent teacher children Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil. Horace grandparent evil bears If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived. Isabel Allende grandparent destiny daughter Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television. Jack Jason sign-language grandparent television «1234567891011»