Grandparent Quotes To Remember

In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb

Kids do not realize that us old folks have... you know... "Been there; Done that".  Because we have a few gray hairs and walk a little slower we do not know.  Ha!  If they only knew!  Here are some standards that haven't changed in decades and are not likely too in the near future... enjoy!

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


What a bargain grandchildren are!  I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.  ~Gene Perret


Grandmothers are just antique little girls.  ~Author Unknown


Grandfathers are just antique little boys.  ~Author Unknown


Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.  ~Welsh Proverb


A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.  ~Charles and Ann Morse


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


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


Never have children, only grandchildren.  ~Gore Vidal


I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home.  It's a bargain.  ~Gene Perret


There's no place like home except Grandma's.  ~Author Unknown


If God had intended us to follow recipes,
He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.
~Linda Henley


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


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


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


A married daughter with children puts you in danger of being catalogued as a first edition.  ~Author Unknown


Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.  ~Author Unknown


Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.  ~Author Unknown


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


A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.  ~Author Unknown