Meaningful Quotes about Grandparents I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be - Abraham Lincoln The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. Nancy Friday The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. - Sam Levenson
Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. - Author Unknown
A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. - Author Unknown
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. - Rudolph Giuliani
Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends - and hardly ever our own grown children. - Ruth Goode
When a child is born, so are grandmothers. - Judith Levy
Never have children, only grandchildren. - Gore Vidal
I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain. - Gene Perret
There's no place like home except Grandma's. - Author Unknown
If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers. ~Linda Henley
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. - Pam Brown
Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends. - Allan Frome
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. - Ogden Nash
Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. - Author Unknown
Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever. - Author Unknown
It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. - Christopher Morley
A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart. - Author Unknown
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. - Lois Wyse
Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things. - Author Unknown It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother. - Author Unknown
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. - Proverb
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. - Gene Perret
If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. - Italian Proverb
Elephants and grandchildren never forget. - Andy Rooney
They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable. - Joan McIntosh
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. - Margaret Mead
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 grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. - Ellen DeGeneres
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. - Henry Youngman
If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it! - Hannah Whithall Smith
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. - William Shakespeare
The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. - Dave Barry
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren. - Art Linkletter
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. - Lois Wyse
Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love. - Author Unknown
The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap. - Author Unknown
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. - Alex Haley
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town. - Gene Perret
A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. - Author Unknown
One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. - Joy Hargrove
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. - Lewis Mumford
If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma. - Teresa Bloomingdale
Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren. - Author Unknown
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap. - Liv Ullmann
Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. - Rita Rudner Dads Children Fathers Family Mothers Sisters |