The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
Sam Levenson
When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
Judith Levy
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
Marceline Desbordes Valmore
A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.
Grandmothers are just antique little girls.
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
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu
No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Jane Howard
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
A house needs a grandma in it.
Louisa May Alcott
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
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
Ralph Ellison
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal
Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses
I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It’s a bargain.
Gene Perret
Dear Grandmamma, with what we give,
We humbly pray that you may live
For many, many happy years:
Although you bore us all to tears.
Hilaire Belloc
There’s no place like home except Grandma’s.
If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.
Italian Proverb
A married daughter with children puts you in danger of being catalogued as a first edition.
If God had intended us to follow recipes,
He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.
Linda Henley
Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance… you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.
Michael Dorris
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
Pam Brown
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
Phyllis Theroux
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
Eric Hoffer
Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
Allan Frome
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.
Jim Carrey
Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.
Edward H. Dreschnack
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
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
Igor Stravinsky
Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Welsh Proverb
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
Victor Hugo
Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.
Gene Perret
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal
Grandchildren don’t stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.
Gene Perret
Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.
The Quotesjunction.com
Do you know why grandchildren are always so full of energy? They suck it out of their grandparents. Gene Perret
It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother – that’s why the world calls her grandmother.
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.
Madeline L’Engle
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.
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
Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.
Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old.
Mary H. Waldrip
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
Doug Larson
The closest friends I have made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and living grandmother or grandfather.
Margaret Mead
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.
Gene Perret
A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.
A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.
Charles and Ann Morse
Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother. ~ G. Norman Collie
They say genes skip generations. Maybe that’s why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable. Joan McIntosh
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. Sam Levenson
Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.
Marcy DeMaree
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.
Fanny Fern
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
The brown Decades
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with his grandfathers.
Lewis Mumford
Grandfathers are just antique little boys.
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
Margaret Mead
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
Alex Haley
Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.
Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
Allan Frome
A friend of mine was asked how she liked having her first great-grandchild. “It was wonderful,” she replied, “until I suddenly realized that I was the mother of a grandfather!”
Robert L Rice
Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
Lois Wyse