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.

The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.

Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.

A house needs a grandma in it.

Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future

When a child is born, so are grandmothers.

They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.

Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories and love.

To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.

If you know his father and grandfather, don't worry about his son.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were 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.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children's children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future.

Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.

The old are the precious gem in the center of the household.

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!

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

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day.

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

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

I love this child. Red-haired—patient and gentle like her mother—fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other. . . . It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way. . . . But for now, it’s jelly beans and “Old MacDonald” that unite us.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.