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.
~ Dave Barry

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.
~ Teresa Bloomingdale

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

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.
~ Jim Carrey

Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother.
~ G. Norman Collie

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I’d like to say that grandparents are God’s gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.
~ Bill Cosby

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.
~ Marcy DeMaree

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
~ Alex Haley

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.
~ Joy Hargrove

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
~ Ogden Nash

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
~ Gene Perret

Grandchildren don’t stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.
~ Gene Perret

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have – if only for self-defense.
~ Gene Perret

My grandkids believe I’m the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.
~ Gene Perret

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

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
~ Proverb

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

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!
~ Hannah Whithall Smith

Never have children, only grandchildren.
~ Gore Vidal

Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old.
~ Mary H. Waldrip

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.
~ Lois Wyse

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