Warm Quotes About Grandparents

1. “If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.”
2. “Something magical happens when parents turn into grandparents.”

3. “Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.” — Margaret Mead

4. “Being a grandparent means you can be as silly as you want to be.”

5. “Some of our greatest blessings call us 'grandma' and 'grandpa.'”

6. “Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.” — Richard Garnett
7. “Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.”

8. “When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.” — Ogden Nash

9. “Grandparents can be very special resources. Just being close to them reassures a child, without words, about change and continuity, about what went before and what will come after.” — Fred Rogers

10. “Grandparents are a treasure in the family. Please, take care of your grandparents: love them and let them talk to your children!” — Pope Francis
11. “A grandparent is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.”

12. "Grandparents are, without a doubt, some of the world’s best educators." — Charles W. Shedd

13. “A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.” — Erma Bombeck

14. “Grandparents are always being told that they are living history to their grandchildren, that they give the children the reassurance of their roots. For me and many grandmothers I have talked to, it works the other way as well. They give us continuity.” — Ruth Goode
15. “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”

16. “I know you’ve loved me since I was born, but I’ve loved you my whole life.”

17. “Grandfathers are just antique little boys.”

18. “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.” — Jay Kesler
19. “Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.”

20. “There are no words to describe the happiness in holding your baby’s baby.”
21. “Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother.” — G. Norman Collie

22. “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.” — President Jimmy Carter

23. “As you are now so once were we.” — James Joyce

24. "I’m going to be your grandpa! I have the biggest smile. I’ve been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while." — Billy Crystal
25. “Truth be told, being a grandma is as close as we ever get to perfection. The ultimate warm sticky bun with plump raisins and nuts. Clouds nine, 10, and 11.” — Bryna Nelson Paston