Famous lines and quotations about grandparents and grandparenting:

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

Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)

"I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to cook and how to work.....they showered us kids with love and left the parenting to Momma and Daddy. That's the beauty of being a grandparent - the hard work belongs to someone else. I guess I never really understood the depth of their love for me until I became a grandmother myself.....it is unlike any other relationship."

Paula Deen

"Never have children, only grandchildren."

Gore Vidal

"A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking."

Charles B. Vaughan

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is."

Ellen DeGeneres

"Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers."

William Feather (1908 - 1976)

"Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground."

Peacemaker

founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)

"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."

Irish Proverb

"Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true."

Solomon Short

"My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle."

Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."

Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)

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