Nana's And Grandchildren Quotes

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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  Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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

  Alex Haley

  Life, Children, Grandmother

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• 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.

  Lois Wyse

  Mother, Children, Grandma

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony

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• Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

  Andy Rooney

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Elephants

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.182, PublicAffairs

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• Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

  Doug Larson

  Grandma, Grandmother, Fighting

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

  Albert Einstein

  Mom, Grandma, Grandmother

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Kindness, Children, Life Lesson

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

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• My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

  Henny Youngman

  Good Life, Grandma, Drinking

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• When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

  Ogden Nash

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

  Doug Larson

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Ideas

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• 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.

  Liv Ullmann

  Baby, Grandma, Grandmother

  Liv Ullmann (1979). “Without Makeup, Liv Ullmann: A Photo-biography”

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• It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Relationship, Nature, Grandma

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• Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

  Paulette Alden

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

  Paulette Bates Alden (1988). “Feeding the Eagles: Short Stories”

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• Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

  William Osler

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

  The Principles and Practice of Medicine p. 130. Appleton, New York (1892)

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• We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Self

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

  Pam Brown

  Wise, Mother, Grandma

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• Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• 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 Whitall Smith

  Fun, Grandma, Grandmother

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• Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

  Gore Vidal

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

  Gene Perret

  Children, Grandmother, Grandparent

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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