Browsing Topic Best Grandparents Day Quotes

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

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

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

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

Some of the world’s best educators are grandparents.

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

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

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.

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

My grandfather was a giant of a man … When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.

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

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

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.

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

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!

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

My grandkids believe I’m the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.

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

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

I like to do nice things for my grandchildren – like buy them those toys I’ve always wanted to play with.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

My Grandmother would say, ‘Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I’ve taught you to be.’

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

Beautiful old people are works of art.

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.