Perret Quotes & Sayings

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. — Gene Perret

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. — Gene Perret

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day. — Gene Perret

Our musicians in residence carry this belief into the classroom. They don't think of children's self-esteem as so fragile that it will be shattered by the suggestion that the child guessed wrong or jumped to an invalid conclusion. They make corrections matter-of-factly, with no feeling that a chid is a failure because she has made an error, but with ocnfidence that the feedback will help the child learn and be accurate the next time. — Peter Perret

I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with. — Gene Perret

On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town. — Gene Perret

Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. — Gene Perret

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. — Gene Perret

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet. — Gene Perret

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever." — Gene Perret

Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire for example, shorts — Geoffrey Perret

My granddaughter and I are inseparable. She keeps me wrapped around her little finger. — Gene Perret

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored. — Gene Perret

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache ... unless you play golf. — Gene Perret

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

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. — Gene Perret

Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever. — Gene Perret

I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain. — Gene Perret

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine. — Gene Perret

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

I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question. — Gene Perret

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. — Gene Perret

Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world
an assigned parking space. — Gene Perret

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense. — Gene Perret

I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income. — Gene Perret

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball. — Gene Perret

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. — Gene Perret

When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you. — Gene Perret

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. — Gene Perret

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. — Gene Perret

Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space. — Gene Perret