Grandparent-Grandchild Bonding Quotes

Don't get me wrong - I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!

I tried to take my gran to the Brits, but she's 81, and I don't know if she was up for making the whole journey all that way for one night anyway.

I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian fetish.

I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play 'The Nanny Called Fran' every night for years. I've seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine.

I could read from the age of three, and I used to love watching quiz shows with my grandad, especially 'Fifteen To One' on Channel 4.

Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own, but I'm not interested in other people's. It's something you tolerate because they are yours.

A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.

Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium.

We're a really close family, and that was what my grandparents promoted.

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

If I were you, I would start training your grandchildren as Bosnia peacekeepers.

I've always enjoyed seeing the world through the eyes of my grandchildren.

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they would learn about history, they would learn about human nature. They would learn about, "Can the individual make a difference or is it great forces?" Tolstoy is always battling with those large issues. Mostly, a whole world would come alive for them through that book.

I fix my grandchildren's computers.

I have played all generations in reel and real life - grandson, son, father, and grandfather - and each relationship has taught me something.

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