Grandparents Quotes

“I sort of take cues from my grandparents.”

“I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.”

“I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate it at the time; but I grew to love it as year after year I spent holidays there at my grandparents' cottage.”

“In our culture, when the parents are having a tough time, the grandparents take care of the kids.”

“My grandparents were in the military and so is a cousin of mine, and a close buddy, so when I heard the word 'hero,' it didn't really seem like what I am.”

“Rajasthan is a place I visit very often. My grandparents live in the village called Kulhariyon Ka Baas, and I am originally from Rajasthan.”

“As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family - my aunties, grandparents - is in Africa.”

“I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang out with my black grandma. We have English teachers on my white side. My grandpa is a principal. And then you go to the other side, and people have been in jail.”

“I'm Japanese, but restaurants in my hometown served the most sanitized versions of California rolls. I grew up eating a lot of Japanese food at home that my parents or grandparents made.”

“My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'”

“I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.”

“I grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, with my parents and sisters, but my family would drive every weekend to Hammonton, where both my grandparents lived and where my parents were raised.”

“I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.”

“I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.”

“My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.”

“I don't think there is ever a wrong time to sit down and listen to your grandparents' stories.”

“I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.”

“I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.”

“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.”

“My grandparents died two months apart, like, marriage forever, all my aunts and uncles, all my brothers are married.”