Grandpa Quotes

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.

You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.

Disgusting. I just found my grandpa's Viagra. I swear, I almost puked from eating so many.

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

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

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

My grandpa taught me how to live off the land.

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

I'm very liberal in some ways, and then I'm very conservative in others. I once asked my grandpa, "Are you a Republican or a Democrat?" He said, "I'm a Democrat, but I'm saving up to be a Republican."

So many things we love are you!

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

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.

Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.

Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.

The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

We have become a grandmother.

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

As far as I know, no one in the Kaufman or Hart clan was the basis for anyone in the play. I think we all wish we had a Grandpa, Penny, and Mr. De Pinna in our families.

How far would you go for someone you love ? Well, when my grandkids ask me how I pledged my love to their grandma, I'll say, I told her I would die for her, after I found out I didn't have an incurable disease. Then, I ran away while grandma was getting her ass kicked by a pregnant woman that grandpa slept with. You never know when you're making a memory.

"You're really not that old." You know, the old grandpa thing - Grandpa Rossy with KB [Kris Bryant] and Rizz [Anthony Rizzo]. That's how everyone treats me.

Over Kyle's shoulder she could see grandpa, looking like a cross between a grizzly bear and a giant pissed-off blowfish.

I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.

One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa - twins. And I'm buying JJ, Pfizer and Warner for their future college funds.

My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.'

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."

For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because they all were marrying their first cousins.

I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.

My grandpa was a preacher.

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

President Obama finally has his own personal Twitter account. Even John McCain said, 'Welcome to the Internet, grandpa.'