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
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
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
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
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
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
Many a child is spoiled because you can't spank his grandmother.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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
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 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
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
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Quotable Quotes
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
Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.
ANONYMOUS
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
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
WELSH PROVERB