Posted by: candaceclayton100 | January 15, 2009

Quotes for Grandparents

 

  • “Dear Grandmamma, with what we give,
    We humbly pray that you may live
    For many, many happy years:
    Although you bore us all to tears.
    - Hilaire Belloc 
  • “If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
    - Victor Hugo  
  • “There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”
    - Victor Hugo 
  • “The brown Decades
    Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with his grandfathers.”
    - Lewis Mumford 
  • Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of hem.
    - Rita Rudner 
  • Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
    - Doug Larson 
  • No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.
    - Author Unknown 
  • “What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren.”
    - Vaughn J. Featherstone 
  • “We have become a grandmother.”
    - Margaret Thatcher 
  • “The reason that grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”
    - Sam Levinson (1911-1980) 
  • Never have children, only grandchildren.
    - Gore Vidal 
  • “A friend of mine was asked how she liked having her first great-grandchild. “It was wonderful,” she replied, “until I suddenly realized that I was the mother of a grandfather!”
    - Robert L Rice, M.D. 
  • It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother – that’s why the world calls her grandmother.
    - Unknown 
  • 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 Whithall Smith 
  • A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.
    - Unknown 
  • Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
    - Unknown 
  • Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
    - Allan Frome 
  • Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
    - Alex Haley 
  • Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.
    - Edward H. Dreschnack 
  • “If I would have known that grandchildren were going to be so much fun I would have had them first”
    - Bill Laurin
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    Responses

    1. Love these quotes, Candace! I shall save them for when I’m a grandparent.
      This is a good site – I shall add it to my writing sites (I’m an Aussie author of children’s books)
      Sheryl :)

      • Thank you Sheryl, I am glad you enjoyed it! :)
        Candace

    2. Are you Canadian?

      • No, I am an American, but I work for an internet publishing company based in Canada.
        http://www.eternalpress.ca

    3. PS If you want to check out my writer’s blog here it is … http://sherylgwyther.wordpress.com

      Have a great writing day (night?)


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