These inspirational quotes about your grandparents will help you appreciate them for who they are and how important they have been in your lives!
Your grandparents are the most amazing people on earth.
They are some of the most impressive people you’ll ever meet.
They’ve seen a lot of things, experienced many things and learned a lot in their lifetime.
Their knowledge and advice is priceless, but it can be difficult to get them to open up sometimes.
Let’s see what these inspirational quotes about your grandparents say about them – and you.
These quotes will help you understand how special your grandparents are, how much they mean to you, and how beautiful their love for you is.
Short Quotes About Grandparents
I wish my grandparents were around to see my children. ―Sophie Dahl
I want to spend time with my grandchildren. I want to teach them how to play chess and read books. ―Albert Einstein
My grandparents were very, very close with me. I was the only grandchild. ―Carly Pearce
I am not a grandmother yet, but I hope to be someday. My children are my pride and joy. ―Queen Elizabeth II
I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents. ―Willard Scott
My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices. ―Bill Hader
Grandchildren are the best gift God gives us. ―Mother Teresa
I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me. ―Teri Garr
My grandparents taught me about hard work, about fear of failure. ―Dwane Casey
My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. ―Antony Sher
I love spending quality time with my grandchildren. We go fishing together and we just enjoy each others company. ―John Travolta
My grandparents were always farmers. ―Travis Fimmel
I sort of take cues from my grandparents. ―Matt Bomer
My grandchildren are my greatest joy. I love them so much! ―Oprah Winfrey
I love my grandkids. They keep me young. ―Elvis Presley
I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents. ―Ronnie Milsap
I love my grandchildren, they are the cutest kids in the whole wide world. ―Prince Charles
The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents. ―Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I love spending time with my grandchildren. They are so cute and smart. ―Angelina Jolie
I wish I could live long enough to see my grandchildren grow up. ―Marilyn Monroe
My grandparents had always helped look after me, they were always there. ―Daisy Lowe
I love, love, love my grandparents. ―Ana Ivanovic
I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. ―Anne Lamott
I think I’m going to have a lot of fun being a grandparent. ―Bill Cosby
The first thing I do in the morning is kiss my granddaughter goodbye. She’s the sweetest little girl in the world. ―George Clooney
My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada. ―Jake Tapper
I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents. ―Deborah Eisenberg
I love my grandsons. They are the best thing that ever happened to me. ―Madonna
Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier. ―Dan Buettner
I don’t know what I’d do without my grandchildren. They’re the best things ever happened to me. ―Betty White
I’ve been blessed with two beautiful granddaughters who make me feel young again. ―Michael Jackson
Even when my grandparents compliment me, I don’t like when they do that. ―DeAndre Yedlin
My grandparents would have big, long arguments that were entertaining and that’s where I first noticed, and was thrilled by, political discourse. ―Bill Bailey
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child’s emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too. ―Bruce Feiler
That’s the privilege of being a grandparent – they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them. ―Toby Stephens
Dizzy Gillespie would come by, eating gumbo. It was crazy. My grandparents were friends with all of them. Dee Dee Bridgewater, all of them, they’d come through. ―Madlib
None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them – surrounded by family and friends. ―Dan Buettner
I grew up really kind of mixed up. I lived with my white grandparents and mom and got made fun of a lot because I talked like her. ―Kyle
Beautiful Quotes from Our Grandparents We Should Follow
My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service. ―Sarah Waters
Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family’s Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation – what kid would? ―Elizabeth Warren
What I like most about an aquarium is that all ages, from toddlers to pre-schoolers to retired grandparents, can really enjoy the wonders of the sea. ―Jim Pattison
The way we dress on ‘Mad Men’ is so associated with old photographs, with people’s parents and grandparents. ―Christina Hendricks
I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents. ―Winnie Harlow
My grandparents and great-grandparents were classic East European/Russian Jewry. Quasky was the name until Grandpa Quasky changed it in 1948. ―Richard Quest
I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight. ―Ariana Grande
I suppose I would like to find out more about my grandparents because I knew them when I was too young to grasp that they were interesting people. They were my grandparents, source of treats. ―Jeremy Hardy
My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco. ―George Clooney
When I was a youngster my grandparents took me sightseeing and we went on the London Eye. ―Stuart Broad
All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I’m Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents. ―Philip Kerr
Growing up in Orangeburg, I didn’t know that I lived in the ‘corridor of shame.’ I was the son of a single mom who learned to read from comic books. My grandparents helped raise me. ―Jaime Harrison
Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope’s. I’ve been going down there all my life, to that whole area. ―Mike Love
It is so important that British children are taught about the World Wars that their great grandparents fought in and lived through. It was a terrifying time. ―Vera Lynn
My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church. ―Lee Greenwood
To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they’d have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister. ―Amy Heckerling
I’d experienced the ’40s and ’50s by looking at my grandparents’ old clothes, books, and magazines. ―Christian Lacroix
I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I’ll be very happy. ―Caroline Kennedy
My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home. ―Andrea Riseborough
Parents do the best they can. But my parents are better grandparents than they were parents. ―Teri Hatcher
As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents’ views on the Empire and colonies as outdated. ―Douglas Alexander
What I’d like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents. ―Jeb Hensarling
I don’t think there is ever a wrong time to sit down and listen to your grandparents’ stories. ―Rege-Jean Page
I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash – a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline. ―Trixie Mattel
My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar. ―Sebastian Coe
I studied jazz at home with my grandparents. They always had jazz dudes at the house, but I didn’t study formally. I just hung around a lot of musicians. ―Madlib
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ―Alex Haley
My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York. ―James Gray
When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren’t particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture. ―Jonathan Anderson
Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern. ―Michael Specter
True love that lasts forever… yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves. ―Zooey Deschanel
I’ve got Spanish grandparents and I’ve got a connection with Spain. But I consider myself English and I want to play for England. ―Harry Winks
My grandparents divorced, both of them, and then my mum and dad did. So it’s like, divorce, divorce, divorce. ―Jade Bird
My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced ‘Yoo’ but my father used to call me ‘Joe. ―Jo Nesbo
My grandparents left the Pale of Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America. ―Merrick Garland
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. ―Jason Alexander
Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don’t see each other that often. ―Nina Dobrev
Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family. ―Henry B. Eyring
There used to be grandparents who would say that if you were misbehaving the Peaky Blinders would get you, they were the bogeymen. ―Steven Knight
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were – it’s all the way back. It’s New English puritanical tradition. ―Penn Jillette
Quotes That Will Inspire You to Be a Better Grandparent
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from. ―Anne Enright
I’m kind of crazy with karma. I really believe that everything you do revisits you, so, I’m really adamant about the kids seeing the grandparents, so like, I can see my grandkids, you know what I mean? ―Joel Madden
Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack – it’s genetic; there’s nothing I can do. ―Paul O’Grady
I know very little about my great grandparents, who came through Ellis Island in the early twentieth century, settled in Baltimore, and spoke only Yiddish. ―Claire Saffitz
When you hear about people in the ’50s getting married at 20, you’re like, ‘What were they thinking?’ My grandparents were together for over 50 years. ―Justin Theroux
One of the great things my grandparents and grandparents taught me was, there are those who don’t have your best interests at heart. ―Wendell Pierce
My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child. ―Tamra Davis
My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid. ―Michael Arden
My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents. ―Nikki Sixx
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. ―Patricia Polacco
My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents. ―Elizabeth Diller
We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win. ―Martin O’Malley
The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents – who we haven’t given enough credit to anyway – for giving us another generation. ―Steven Spielberg
The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity. ―Mariella Frostrup
When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody. ―Newt Gingrich
I was born in Peebles and my grandparents lived in Colinton so I spent time there. ―Angus Macfadyen
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother. ―Claudette Colbert
Going out in Paris was like going out in the ’30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I’d seen in books at my grandparents’ house, only it was our generation. ―Christian Lacroix
I am a proud Italian American, raised by an Italian mother and Italian grandparents. ―Tim Ryan
I’ve got my wife. I’ve got my four kids. I’ve got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It’s all you need. I’d rather have three really good friends than 20 good friends. ―David Beckham
At NBC I wasn’t really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic. ―Tabitha Soren
I had two amazing parents, two younger brothers, grandparents, a supportive community. Really loved. ―Ryan Leaf
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
Quotes That Every Grandparent Should Live By
With my grandparents, it was almost like a hippie lifestyle. I could do whatever I wanted. If I didn’t want to do my homework, I didn’t do it. ―Willie Cauley-Stein
Because of ‘Wasn’t Expecting That,’ I’ve had a lot of people come up to me and say how I’ve written their lives or their grandparents’ lives. It means the world to me that I helped in the tiniest way. ―Jamie Lawson
My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me. ―Gabrielle Zevin
Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. ―Bryan Clay
I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate. ―Richard Flanagan
My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place. ―Vincent Schiavelli
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents’ converted garage. ―Becky G
I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know. ―James Earl Jones
We’re a really close family, and that was what my grandparents promoted. ―Deborah Joy Winans
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. ―Miranda Kerr
As I ran out of grandparents at the age of 16, the only time I ever see old folk is when I’m over-taking them on a motorway, they’re in my audience laughing at filth, or in any park. ―Sarah Millican
All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system. ―Erin Cummings
My kids are from Japan. My kids grandparents are from there, and they never really watched me fight back in the day. ―Quinton Jackson
Quotes That Show What Amazing Grandparents Do
I always loved pretending I was a fish or a mermaid while swimming in my grandparents’ pool. ―Jessica Long
In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was capable of. ―Jacqueline Woodson
I grew up with very strong family support. My grandparents raised me, and my uncle sort of played that father-figure role in my life. ―DeAndre Yedlin
All my mom’s side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they’re patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them. ―David Archuleta
I am second-generation American, and my grandparents are from Puerto Rico. ―Laurie Hernandez
I know from the stories of my grandparents and great-grandparents the real struggles and discrimination that Italian Americans faced when they first immigrated to America. ―Tim Ryan
And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand – as do my parents and my grandparents and great-grandparents – we’re used to things not going our way. ―Kenya Barris
My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies. ―Clarence Thomas
I stand here today – in the shadow of my parents’ and grandparents’ accomplishments – because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future. ―David Ige
My father was a director, and my mother and grandparents were actors, so I spent a great deal of my time as a teenager trying to get away from the theatre. ―Marianne Elliott
My grandparents were best friends in kindergarten and never loved anyone again. ―Kaitlyn Bristowe
My grandparents on my father’s side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it. ―Taj Mahal
My grandparents owned an apple orchard when I was growing up – a lot of apples, cherries… now, actually, a lot of grapes, too, to be honest. ―Joe Harris
My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain. ―Jeff Ross
I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents’ large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery. ―Yves Chauvin
I am naturally cautious so I guess I am a saver. I’m a firm believer in not borrowing money, which is a lesson passed down to me from my parents and grandparents. ―Sean Lock
I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me. ―Willie Nelson
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. ―Jack White
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
What Grandparents Wish They Were Told When They Became Parents
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever. ―Ed Smith
Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S. ―Leila Janah
One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world. ―Abigail Washburn
I’m really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears. ―Melanie Laurent
President Obama’s fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois. ―Tom Vilsack
My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents. ―Kimbal Musk
My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving. ―Jack Antonoff
On matters of race, South Carolina has a tough history. We all know that. Many of us have seen it in our own lives – in the lives of our parents and our grandparents. We don’t need reminders. ―Nikki Haley
Personally, I’d be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side. ―Gail Collins
My grandparents bowed to the Americans and sought to learn from them. My parents sought to be them. ―Alex Tizon
Boys and girls, have confidence in the direction and counsel and advice of your parents and grandparents who love you more than anybody else in the world does. ―James E. Faust
Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, ’cause they would have lived to a hundred. ―Kid Rock
I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents. ―Anthony Foxx
It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them. ―Karrie Webb
As my name might suggest, I’m Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn’t be talking now. ―Elliot Perlman
No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life. ―Jimmy Connors
Loss is universal. I’ve lost grandparents that I dearly adored, lost animals that were like brothers to me. Many of us have gone through terrible breakups. ―Peter Heller
My grandparents – both of my mother’s parents – were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from. ―Kate Winslet
Grandparents Say The Best Things: The Quotes That Make Every Day Worth Living
I never got to know my grandparents, and I am envious of my friends who have a special relationship with theirs. ―Cressida Bonas
I believe in the value of life. I believe we must prepare our children for tomorrow with the family values of my grandparents. ―Ryan Zinke
I can tell you as a black person in South Carolina whose grandparents grew up through Jim Crow, when you lose the courts and justice no longer becomes just, we’re in a world of trouble. ―Jaime Harrison
No one helped my grandparents when a con man stole our house, or when I needed help paying for a plane ticket to get to college. But my community always had my back. ―Jaime Harrison
Without my mum, dad and my grandparents it wouldn’t have been possible to get where I am now. ―Harry Wilson
My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland. ―Michael Connelly
We’ll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years? ―Justin Zackham
I say homes are for families, and you have to make sure you design for the family, not just one person: kids, your wife, your grandparents need to be able to use it. ―Tony Fadell
I want to take my rapper money and start my own assisted living facilities in Houston because I see what it looks like when you got your grandparents take care of your great-grandparents. ―Megan Thee Stallion
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. ―Adrian Tomine
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents’ house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I’m on ‘Downton Abbey. ―Allison Williams
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them. ―Dominic Chianese
Grandparents Quotes You’d Love to Tweet
My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music. ―Becky G Click To TweetAll parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you. ―Anne Lamott Click To Tweet'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa. ―Jill Lepore Click To TweetWe hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids. ―Jan Koum Click To TweetMy grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories. ―James Gray Click To TweetOur loyalty is not to our grandparents, the traditions, our volleyball team, our friends; as believers, our loyalty is to Scripture. ―Benjamin Watson Click To TweetThere's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. ―Clarence Thomas Click To TweetI lost my sister Telsche to ovarian cancer in 1997 and my grandparents on my mother's side both had cancer but well into their 70s. ―Charley Boorman Click To TweetMy parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish. ―Brian McDermott Click To TweetBeing pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay. ―Jamie-Lynn Sigler Click To TweetGrandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested. ―T. Berry Brazelton Click To TweetI tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up. ―Eric Clapton Click To TweetMy grandparents were from Kentucky – I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle. ―Dennis Hopper Click To TweetDownload Best Grandparents Quotes
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FAQs
How often should you visit your grandparents?
You should visit your grandparents as often as possible. Remember as a kid how close you were to your grandparents. They need your help and assistance as they grow old and struggle with their day-to-day chores.
What is your favorite quote for grandparents?
My favorite quote about grandparents is – “I love, love, love my grandparents. ― by Ana Ivanovic.”
Conclusion
Hope you liked these quotes about grandparents.
Our grandparents are the most amazing people on earth.
They’ve seen a lot of things, experienced many things and learned a lot in their lifetime.
These are some of the best inspirational quotes about our grandparents.
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