Quotations    about Grandparents

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


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


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


When a child is born, so are grandmothers.  ~Judith Levy


Never have children, only grandchildren.  ~Gore Vidal


It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.  ~Igor Stravinsky


Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.  ~Allan Frome


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


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


It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother.  ~Author Unknown


Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.  ~Mary H. Waldrip


If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.  ~Italian Proverb


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


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


The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.  ~Sam Levenson, You Don't Have to Be in "Who's Who" to Know What's What


Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do.  Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.  ~Alex Haley


A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside.  ~Author Unknown


Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.  ~G. Norman Collie


No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.  ~Author Unknown


A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.  ~Erma Bombeck


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


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


Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.  ~Rita Rudner

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