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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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
By: sherylgwyther on January 19, 2009
at 4:22 am
Thank you Sheryl, I am glad you enjoyed it!
Candace
By: candaceclayton100 on January 19, 2009
at 4:23 am
Are you Canadian?
By: sherylgwyther on January 19, 2009
at 4:27 am
No, I am an American, but I work for an internet publishing company based in Canada.
http://www.eternalpress.ca
By: candaceclayton100 on January 19, 2009
at 4:30 am
PS If you want to check out my writer’s blog here it is … http://sherylgwyther.wordpress.com
Have a great writing day (night?)
By: sherylgwyther on January 19, 2009
at 4:29 am