What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
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.
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.
A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. 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.
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
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.
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
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!
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.
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.
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
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