I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.
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.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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.
The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.
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.
Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.
Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.
My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
Beautiful old people are works of art.
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
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.
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!
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
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