Top 121 Grandpa Quotes

My Grandpa Tony was a legend in our family, and also in his own mind. There’s no end to the tales of his exploits.

My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.

Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.

I’ve always wanted grandpa to be proud of me, and I want him to see me play in the NBA.

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

It’s kind of ironic that the only Super Bowl I’ve been to as a fan was when the Rams played the Titans. I was at that game. My grandpa, when he was still involved in the NFL, he got me tickets for my birthday.

I used to have go-karts and mopeds and motorcycles when I was a kid. Then my grandpa let me drive a real car at about 13 or 14 and I just… I never cared about bikes again after that.

I mowed yards with my grandpa at $10 a pop for awhile. I painted numbers on curbs. I cleaned swimming pools. I usually did all of that over the summer, and then I’d continue to do the yard part during the year as I went to school.

My wife makes fun of me by calling me a grandpa because I have very little patience for inconsiderate children. So if we’re walking in the mall, and some kid goes by really fast on a skateboard, I become the grumpiest eighty-five-year-old man in the world and start screaming at them.

I grew up a Yankee fan. My whole family are Yankee fans. My mom, my dad, my grandpa, everybody. Really, every generation of my family has been Yankee fans.

I’m from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to L.A. when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.

I’m from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to L.A. when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.

In baseball, there’s certain things you can call someone: a fossil, graybeard, grandpa, dad, pops. But I got a chance to say it and mean it.

I did a shoot for ‘Sports Illustrated,’ and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of ‘Playboy’ was coming out. It was hilarious as well as embarrassing.

I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.

It is certainly accurate, as it has often been said and as his letters reveal, that Grandpa supplied his tenth college reunion with alcohol in 1922 at the height of Prohibition.

When grandpa was ill and could’ve died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

Grandpa didn’t have any idea of customer service. But he wanted to make a living. Eventually, we saw it was not in our best interest to be arguing with customers.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, ‘If you don’t get up to feed the horses, you don’t get to ride them.’ We’d get up.

It’s interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what’s going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn’t make you look like you dress like a grandpa.

As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the tornadoes that terrorize the Great Plains.

It’s kind of ironic that the only Super Bowl I’ve been to as a fan was when the Rams played the Titans. I was at that game. My grandpa, when he was still involved in the NFL, he got me tickets for my birthday.

Older men in my family – back to my grandpa – were basically completely bald.

‘Halo’ I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he’d often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn’t see. And he always – he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he’d write a song with me about Jesus’ halo.

I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

My grandpa is the funniest person in the world, straight up. But mostly everyone in my family groans when he is ‘on.’ I am his biggest fan.

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.

My grandpa is the funniest person in the world, straight up. But mostly everyone in my family groans when he is ‘on.’ I am his biggest fan.

My Grandpa Tony was a legend in our family, and also in his own mind. There’s no end to the tales of his exploits.

But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

My grandmother Shelley was an actress and would tell me about working in the theatre, while my grandpa on Dad’s side, Gerard Dynevor, was a big influence in theatre and a TV director.

My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.

My grandpa was a big cowboy in his values and the way he lived his life. For our family, the ranch represented our family time when we got to drive down through all that desert farmland and Grandpa would wake us up at 5 A.M. to feed the horses if we wanted to earn the right to ride them later. I always had so much fun.

My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.

My wife makes fun of me by calling me a grandpa because I have very little patience for inconsiderate children. So if we’re walking in the mall, and some kid goes by really fast on a skateboard, I become the grumpiest eighty-five-year-old man in the world and start screaming at them.

I’m so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I’m the Motor City Madgramps.

I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.

I love my grandpa so much. I’ve just spent so many times with him on the golf course. He’s watched me play and win so many junior golf tournaments.

I always like to look at things and think, ‘Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?’ And if I wouldn’t want them to see it, then it’s not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.

I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all, singing comic songs on his baby grand.

The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown’s thedailybeast.com does pay its writers. You have to be paid because this is not a hobby. You have to keep that standard. You can’t ask grandpa to loan you money because you have to go to Afghanistan. I walked the picket line for that to continue.

You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they’re sorry? They do mean it, but… there’s nothing to say. There’s a void that cannot be filled.

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.

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.

I knew I was born with a heart murmur. Doctors have always monitored it, and it’s never caused any problems. Still, it’s on my mind a bit more now. Especially now that I know that heart disease is a woman’s disease and not just what Grandpa suffers from.

My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don’t know, it didn’t take me long to realize I’m a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.

If I double-fault or I miss a shot I don’t think I should miss, instead of getting more upset, I can think back to the tough times that my brother went through or trying to make my grandpa proud.

I learn a lot from my dad and my grandpa, but I do things in a completely different way.

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

My grandpa was a World War II paratrooper, my uncle a Vietnam Purple Heart recipient, my cousins both Marine Corps officers. I have some very close Navy SEAL connections as well.

One of the first roles I every played, I was Grandpa Vanderhoff in ‘You Can’t Take It With You.’ Walked with a cane, white stuff in my hair. It must have been horrible. Thank God there’s no videotape of it.