(133 quotes found)
“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.”
Alex Haley
“Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother”
Claudette Colbert
“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
“Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.”
Allan Fromme Dr.
“What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.”
Bill Cosby
“The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.”
Sam Levenson
“Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.”
William Osler
“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”
“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
“Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans / the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.”
Susan Sontag
