GRANDPARENTS QUOTES II

quotations about grandparents

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.

ANONYMOUS

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Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

DR. CHARLIE W. SHEDD

attributed, Just Grandparents

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You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know how to get it right. Plus, once you turn fifty, you kind of stop giving a sh*t what others think.

LIZ FENTON

The Year We Turned Forty


Never have children, only grandchildren.

GORE VIDAL

Palimpsest: A Memoir

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To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

ROBERT BRAULT

attributed, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers


Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

LOIS WYSE

Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother


You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.

ANNE LAMOTT

"Q&A: Anne Lamott", San Diego Magazine, Jan. 27, 2014

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Kids are hard--they drive you crazy and break your heart--whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these years.

ANNE LAMOTT

Some Assembly Required

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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy--the mother.

CLAUDETTE COLBERT

Time Magazine, September 14, 1981


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

introduction, Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother


Grandparents are convinced they're better parents than their own kids, whose lives they've already f***ed up.

GARTH STEIN

The Art of Racing in the Rain


Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK

Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care

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Grandparents are like bookends. They're different from the books, but they prop up the sides. Knowing their grandparents, children can feel a little more stable.

JAY KESLER & RONALD A. BEERS

Parents & Children


The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

SAM LEVENSON

You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What


The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.

FRED ROGERS

Mister Rogers Talks With Parents

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Grandparents are a special breed. The majority of them are positive and cheering fans to their grandchildren. They don't see our faults and quirks like our parents do. Instead, grandparents seem to perfect the wonderful talent of looking the other way, and see us as brilliant and pure beings.

JAMES VAN PRAAGH

Healing Grief


Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

GENE PERRET

Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First


It's amazing how grandparents seem so young once you become one.

ANONYMOUS

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I am convinced there's a gramma gene that disables the word "no."

LESLEY STAHL

Becoming Grandma


Grandparents are like the National Guard.... We are called in to deal with emergencies.

DAVID STEWART

Murder Most Academic