Quotes by Gene Perret - Page 1

Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Home
Teacher
Retirement
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He has a brain like Einstein's - dead since 1955
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Brain
Inspiration
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I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Teacher
Income
Retirement
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Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Bored
People
Want
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Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Grandchildren
Grandparent
People
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On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Grandchildren
Grandmother
Grandparent
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I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Grandchildren
Grandmother
Self
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Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Inspirational
Retirement
Stress
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I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Home
Couple
Grandma
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Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Marriage
Funny Love
Wine
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I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Success
Age
Retirement
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My granddaughter and I are inseparable. She keeps me wrapped around her little finger.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Children
Granddaughter
Littles
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Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Children
Grandmother
Grandparent
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Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Age
Retirement
Worry
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When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Age
Boss
Retirement
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Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Home
Forever
Retirement
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Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Marriage
Space
Wedding Anniversary
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"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Children
Compliment
Grandpa
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Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world--an assigned parking space.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Education
Space
Teaching
World
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Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Teacher
Nice
Retirement
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I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Grandchildren
Grandmother
Nice
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Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Grandchildren
Grandmother
Grandparent
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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 / Screenwriter
Teacher
Golf
Retirement
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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 / Screenwriter
Believe
Grandma
Grandmother
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I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Grandma
Grandmother
Grandpa
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What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Grandchildren
Grandma
Grandmother
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An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Grandchildren
Grandmother
Grandparent
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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 / Screenwriter
Grandchildren
Grandmother
Naps
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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 / Screenwriter
Intelligence
Kids
School
Smart
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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 / Screenwriter
Basketball
Grandmother
Mean
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It's time to diet and exercise when you accept the fact that you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but not while you're wearing a bathing suit.
Gene Perret / Screenwriter
Inspirational
Exercise
People
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