Being A Grandma Quotes:

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

- Sam Levenson

topic: Children, Grandma, Grandmother, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

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

- Pam Brown

topic: Wise, Mother, Grandma, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

source: Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.25, The Floating Press

topic: Mother, Cousin, Uncles, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

topic: Grandma, Believe, Grandmother, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

- Gene Perret

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

- Sam Levenson

topic: Inspirational, Family, Children, Grandson, Mother And Grandmother

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

- Gene Perret

topic: Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

- Ellen DeGeneres

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Life, Birthday, Mother Grandmother, Mothers Day Grandma

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

- Lois Wyse

topic: Grandchildren, Grandparent, Would Be, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

topic: Baby, Grandma, Grandmother, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

- Igor Stravinsky

topic: Nature, Grandparent, Generations, Mothers Day Grandma, Grandkids

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

- J. Norman Collie

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Men, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Motivational, Cute, Growing Up, Live And Learn, My Grandfather

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

- William Osler

topic: Grandparent, Veins, Results, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

- Gene Perret

source: Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

topic: Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa, Children And Grandchildren, Funny Grandmother

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

- Paulette Alden

source: Paulette Bates Alden (1988). “Feeding the Eagles: Short Stories”

topic: Grandmother, Grandparent, Fading, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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 Whitall Smith

topic: Fun, Grandmother, People, Mother Grandmother, Mothers Day Grandma

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

- Gene Perret

source: Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

- Ogden Nash

topic: Doors, Grandparent, Discipline, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

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.

- Rudy Giuliani

topic: Children, Kindness, Life Lesson, My Grandfather, Mother Grandmother

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

topic: Grandchildren, Order, Grandparent, Mother Grandmother, Mothers Day Grandma

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

- Alex Haley

source: Reader's Digest, 1987.

topic: Life, Children, Grandmother, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

- Lois Wyse

source: Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Glowing, Grandson, My Grandfather

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.

- Teresa Bloomingdale

topic: Beautiful, Baby, Grandma, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

- Henny Youngman

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Good Life, Drinking, Grandmother, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

source: Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony

topic: Mother, Children, Grandma, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Elephants, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Fighting, Grandchildren, Grandparent, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

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

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Relationship, Fun, Halloween, Inspirational Halloween, Mother And Grandmother

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed. With Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius and Writings, by N. Rowe”, p.590

topic: Mother, Grandma, Names, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

- Art Linkletter

topic: Patriotic, Grandchildren, Names, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Inspirational, Children, Grandmother, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

source: Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.54, Rodale

topic: Baby, Grandma, Grandmother, My Grandfather, Mother Grandmother

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Mom, Grandmother, Science, Nans, Mother And Grandmother

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

- Susan Strasberg

source: Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”

topic: Home, Grandparent, Aroma, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

topic: Grandmother, Grandparent, Bless, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Funny, Brother, Grandma, Brothers And Sisters, Mother And Grandmother

"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

- Gene Perret

topic: Children, Grandpa, Compliment, Parents And Grandparents, Funny Grandparent