Grandparents Day Quotes:

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

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Inspirational, Family, Cute Relationship, Happy Family, Family Holiday

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Elephants, 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

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

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Love, Children, Father, Grandson, My Grandfather

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

- Claudette Colbert

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

If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.

- Regina Brett

topic: Grandparent, Lucky, Cherish, Grandparents Day, Happy Grandparents Day

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

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 don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

- Sam Levenson

source: Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.1, Open Road Media

topic: Grandmother, Grandparent, Grandfather, Grandkids, Children And Grandchildren

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Birthday, Beautiful, Art, Inspirational Age, Old Person

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

- Umair Haque

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

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

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

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

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

- Ogden Nash

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

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

- Robert Breault

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandpa, Grandkids, Children And Grandchildren

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

- Gene Perret

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

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

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

- Art Linkletter

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

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

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

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

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

Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.

- Jay Kesler

source: Jay Kesler (1993). “Grandparenting: The Agony and the Ecstasy”, Vine Books

topic: Past, Grandparent, People, Grandkids, Parents And Grandparents

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

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

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

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

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