Quotes on grandparents
I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather - not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
Shriner, Will
Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels.
Saige, Lexie
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Vidal, Gore
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
Shakespeare, William
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
Bombeck, Erma
Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.
Waldrip, Mary H.
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.
Chesterfield, Earl of
I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.
Strasberg, Susan
A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance.
Unknown, Author
Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
Rudner, Rita
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
Alden, Paulette Bates
My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.
Perret, Gene
A house needs a grandma in it.
Alcott, Louisa May
My granddaughter came to spend a few weeks with me, and I decided to teach her to sew. After I had gone through a lengthy explanation of how to thread the machine, she stepped back, put her hands on her hips, and said in disbelief, "You mean you can do all that, but you can't play my Game Boy?"
Unknown, Author
I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.
Hal
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
Brown, Pam
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Saying, Irish
Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren.
Unknown, Author
When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
Levy, Judith
The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Levenson, Sam
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Mumford, Lewis
They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.
McIntosh, Joan
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!
Smith, Hannah Whithall
Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
Frome, Allan
Grandfathers are just antique little boys.
Unknown, Author