Explore the wonderful quotes under this tag
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Sep 30, 2025
I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.
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.
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.
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
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.
"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.
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 grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
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.
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.
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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.
I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.
I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.
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.
How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say one thing: today, as Brazil and the Church around the world celebrate this feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, Grandparents Day is also being celebrated. How important grandparents are for family life, for passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society! How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogues, especially within the context of the family.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Are we not like two volumes of one book?