Grandparent Quotes
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future
The complete family is a family that consists of three generations.
A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.
Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.
Grandparents should play the same role in the family as an elder statesman can in the government of a country. They have the experience and knowledge that comes from surviving a great many years of life's battles and the wisdom, hopefully, to recognise how their grandchildren can benefit from this.
The old are the precious gem in the center of the household.
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.
The birth of a grandchild is a wonderful and exciting event! That wonder and excitement continues throughout life.
Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories and love.
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren.
Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.
The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.
Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent.
A house needs a grandma in it.
Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.
