Quotable Sunday -Grandparents

The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy.  ~Sam Levenson

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.  ~Author Unknown

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

Grandfathers are just antique little boys.  ~Author Unknown


Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.  ~Welsh Proverb

A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.  ~Charles and Ann Morse

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.  ~Author Unknown

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.  ~Rudolph Giuliani

A house needs a grandma in it.  ~Louisa May Alcott

Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends - and hardly ever our own grown children.  ~Ruth Goode

I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home.  It's a bargain.  ~Gene Perret

There's no place like home except Grandma's.  ~Author Unknown

If God had intended us to follow recipes,
He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.
~Linda Henley

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful.  One moment you're just a mother.  The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.  ~Pam Brown

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.  ~Phyllis Theroux

Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.  ~Allan Frome

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