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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