Grandparents Day Quotes

• Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Grandparent, Mouths, Want

  "Advice to Grandparents: Hold the Advice" by Karin Kasdin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2012.

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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

  Henny Youngman

  Good Life, Grandma, Drinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Baby, Grandma, Grandmother

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.54, Rodale

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• What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Children, Grandmother

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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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• 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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• 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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• A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

  Erma Bombeck

  Relationship, Fun, Halloween

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• 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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• There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Children, Father

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1343, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

  Claudette Colbert

  Mother, Grandchildren, Grandpa

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• If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.

  Regina Brett

  Grandparent, Lucky, Cherish

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• Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

  Charlie W Shedd

  Grandparent, Grandfather, Age

  Charlie W Shedd (1976). “Grandparents: Then God Created Grandparents and It Was Very Good”, Doubleday

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• 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.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Brother, Sibling

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• You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

  Sam Levenson

  Grandmother, Grandparent, Grandfather

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.1, Open Road Media

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• I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

  Ralph Ellison

  Grandmother, Grandparent, African American

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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• Beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Art, Nursing

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• Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.

  Umair Haque

  Grandchildren, Grandpa, Leader

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• I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Children, Father

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

  Ogden Nash

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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