GRANDPARENTS QUOTES

quotations about grandparents

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

PAM BROWN

attributed, The Little Red Book of Grandmother's Wisdom


My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

ELLEN DEGENERES

attributed, Age Happens: The Best Quotes & Cartoons about Growing Older

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By the standards of the European industrial world we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe.

TAYEB SALIH

Season of Migration to the North


Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.

ANONYMOUS

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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

attributed, Just Grandparents

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An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

GENE PERRET

Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First


Becoming a grandmother turns the page. Line by line you are rewritten. You are tilted off your old center, spun onto new turf. There's a faint scent of déjà vu from when you raised your own children, but this place feels freer. Here you rediscover fun and laughing, and reach a depth of pure loving you have never felt before.

LESLEY STAHL

Becoming Grandma


Many a child is spoiled because you can't spank his grandmother.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

DAVE BARRY

attributed, Just Grandparents

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

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street

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Like many men and women who make egregious and irretrievable mistakes with their own children, she would redeem herself by becoming the perfect grandmother.

PAT CONROY

The Prince of Tides


Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

ALEX HALEY

The Maroon

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Grandparents are a gift from God. They understand from day one that they were put here on this earth to spoil your child, and they are well on their way to receiving a "mission accomplished" in that category.

MICHAEL MILLIGAN & TOM LYNCH

Dad Rules: Notes on Fatherhood


While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.

KATE MORTON

The House at Riverton


Grandparents are like super-parents, if parents are the source of our being then grandparents are the grand source of our being.

GEOFF PRIDHAM

Enjoy Your Life


Grandmas defy description. They really do. They occupy such a unique place in the life of a child. They can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax, and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realization that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.

ERMA BOMBECK

At Wit's End

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

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Quotable Quotes

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Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.

ANONYMOUS

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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

WELSH PROVERB


There is nothing more wonderful than the love and guidance a grandparent can give his or her grandchild.

EDWARD FAYS

The Grandparent's Treasure Chest

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