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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
Sep 30, 2025
Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.
What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren.
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.
The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.
I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.
With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.
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.
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.
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.
Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.
I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.
The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.
To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.
You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
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.
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
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.
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
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.
Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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.
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
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.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.
My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.
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.
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
Beautiful old people are works of art.
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.
Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them in ways that they did not indulge their own children. Grandfather knows that after the fun and games are over with his adorable grandchildren he can return to the quiet of his own home and peacefully reflect on this phenomenon of fatherhood.