Grandparent Quotes
The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
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!
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.
It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.
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.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
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.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Those who don’t get to grow up with grandparents around miss out on alot.
Something magical happens when parents turns into grandparents. Their attitude changes from "money-doesn't-grow-on-trees" to spending it like it does.
It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.
When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn the way from them.
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
Never have children, only grandchildren.
In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
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.
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.
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day.
A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.
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.
If you know his father and grandfather, don't worry about his son.
