Quotes & Definitions About Grandparents



Quotes Definitions
A house needs a grandma in it. (Louisa May Alcott)
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)
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)
Never have children, only grandchildren. (Gore Vidal)
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)
Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends. (Allan Frome)
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. (Gene Perret)
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. (Ogden Nash)
Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. (Marcy DeMaree)
Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. (Lois Wyse)
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)
It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. (Christopher Morley)
Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels. (Lexie Saige)
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. (Lois Wyse)
They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable. (Joan McIntosh)
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. (Margaret Mead)
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)
Do you know why grandchildren are always so full of energy? They suck it out of their grandparents. (Gene Perret)
Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old. (Mary H. Waldrip)
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. (Proverb)
If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. (Italian Proverb)
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. (William Shakespeare)
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. (Alex Haley)
What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate. (Bill Cosby)
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. (Anthony Brandt)
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. (Joseph Joubert)
Family is the most effective form of government. (Robert Half)
There's nothing like having a grandchild to restore faith to heredity. (Doug Larsen)
The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren. (Doug Larson)
Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent. (Donald A. Norberg)
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. (Alex Haley)
Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child's growth as vitamins. (Joyce Allston)
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. (Geoff Dench)