Happy Grandparents Day Quotes by Gene Perret, Ogden Nash, Lois Wyse, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Andy Rooney and many others.
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.
My grandkids believe I’m the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
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.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but 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.
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!
Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.
What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I’d like to say that grandparents are God’s gifts to children.
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
