Best Grandparents Quotes:

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

It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.

- Mike Krzyzewski

topic: Grandpa, Goofy, Happens, Funny Grandparent, Best Grandparents

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Motivational, Fathers Day, Future, Grandson, My Grandfather

I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Mother, Children, Father, Jelly Bean, Parents And Grandparents

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

- Charlie W Shedd

source: Charlie W Shedd (1976). “Grandparents: Then God Created Grandparents and It Was Very Good”, Doubleday

topic: Grandparent, Age, World, Parents And Grandparents, Best Grandparents

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

- Ralph Ellison

source: Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

topic: Grandparent, African American, Slave, Funny Grandmother, Best Grandparents

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

- Claudette Colbert

topic: Mother, Grandchildren, Grandparent, Grandkids, Parents And Grandparents

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

- Jim Carrey

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

topic: Best Grandparents

Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

- T. Berry Brazelton

source: "Advice to Grandparents: Hold the Advice" by Karin Kasdin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2012.

topic: Grandparent, Mouths, Want, Parents And Grandparents, Best Grandparents

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

- Gene Perret

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

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

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

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

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

Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.

- Umair Haque

topic: Grandchildren, Grandpa, Leader, My Grandchildren, Best Grandparents

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

- Gene Perret

topic: Couple, Grandma, Home, Mothers Day Grandma, Parents And Grandparents

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

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

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

- Gene Perret

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

topic: Children, Grandmother, Grandparent, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

- Gene Perret

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

topic: Grandchildren, Grandparent, People, Grandson, My Grandchildren

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

- Ogden Nash

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

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

- Gore Vidal

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

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 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

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

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

- Doug Larson

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

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

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

- Doug Larson

topic: Grandchildren, Views, Ideas, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Responsibility, Pride, Past, Children And Grandchildren, Funny Grandparent

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

- Art Linkletter

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

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

- Brad Pitt

topic: Grandmother, Names, Grandparent, Best Grandparents

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

- Lois Wyse

topic: Grandchildren, Grandparent, Childhood, Parents And Grandparents, Best Grandparents