Happy Grandparents Day Quotes:

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

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

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Mom, Grandmother, Science, Nans, 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

source: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

topic: Birthday, Hope, Heart, Inspirational Age, Grandkids

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.

- Gene Perret

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

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Naps, My Grandchildren, Children And Grandchildren

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

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

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

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

topic: Life, Motivational, Family, Joy Of Learning, Kid At Heart

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

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

topic: Friendship, Book, Two, Bff, Togetherness

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

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

- Gore Vidal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Ogden Nash

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

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

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

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

- Umair Haque

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

Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!

- Abu Yahya al-Libi

topic: Grandparent, Shining, Looks, Happy Grandparents Day

"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