Quotes for National Grandparents Day

Celebrating where the heart is

We all know Mother’s Day. We all know Father’s Day. But did you know today is National Grandparents Day? As I write this, I am thinking a lot about my beloved grandmother, who played an integral role in my upbringing and even though it’s been 13 years since her passing, she still occupies a huge space in my heart that I cherish to this day. These quotes are a celebration of grandparents, who love us, spoil us, and pour their wisdom and grace into us.

1. “A grandparent is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.” -Unknown

2. “Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.” -Alex Haley

3. “Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins.” -Joyce Allston

4. “Grandparents are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re there.” -Unknown

5. “When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.” -Ogden Nash

6. “The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy.” -Sam Levenson

7. “Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.” -Margaret Mead

8. “A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.” -Erma Bombeck

9. “Grandparents make the world a little softer, a little kinder, and a little warmer.” -Unknown

10. “There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.” -Victor Hugo

11. “Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels.” -Lexie Saige

12. “No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.” -Unknown

13. “A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.” -Charles and Ann Morse

14. “Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.” -Gene Perret

15. “Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next, you are all-wise and prehistoric.” -Pam Brown

16. “One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.” -Joy Hargrove

17. “Grandma and Grandpa, tell me a story and snuggle me with your love. When I’m in your arms, the world seems small and we’re blessed by the heavens above.” -Laura Spiess

18. “Grandma serves kisses, counsel, and cookies daily.” -Unknown

19. “Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent.” -Donald A. Norberg

20. “Children brought up by their grandparents are generally spoiled.” -Spanish Proverb

21. “Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.” -Doug Larson

22. “If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” -Italian proverb

23. “We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.” -Phyllis Theroux

24. “If you’re lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.” -Regina Brett

25. “There is nothing more wonderful than the love and guidance a grandparent can give his or her grandchild.” -Edward Fays

26. “Parents know a lot but grandparents know everything.” -Unknown

27. “Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.” -Allan Frome

28. “I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I’d find the same set of grandkids.” -Robert Brault

29. “My grandfather was a giant of a man….When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.” -Eth Clifford

30. “Every house needs a grandmother in it.” -Louisa May Alcott

31. “You are the sun, Grandma, you are the sun in my life.” -Kitty Tsui

32. “Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.” -Charles J. Sykes

33. “Young people need something stable to hang on to — a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.” -Jay Kesler

34. “What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars’ worth of pleasure.” -Gene Perret

35. “They say genes skip generations. Maybe that’s why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.” -Joan McIntosh

36. “Truth be told, being a grandma is as close as we ever get to perfection. The ultimate warm sticky bun with plump raisins and nuts. Clouds nine, ten, and eleven.” -Bryna Nelson Paston

37. “Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.” -Jimmy Carter

38. “Becoming a grandparent is a second chance. For you have a chance to put to use all the things you learned the first time around and may have made mistakes on. It’s all love and no discipline. There’s no thorn in the rose.” -Joyce Brothers

39. “Elephants and grandchildren never forget.” -Andy Rooney

40. “Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.” -Marcy DeMaree

41. “Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.” -Lois Wyse

42. “On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.” -Gene Perret

43. “Grandparents can be very special resources. Just being close to them reassures a child, without words, about change and continuity, about what went before and what will come after.” -Fred Rogers

44. “Never have children, only grandchildren.” -Gore Vidal

45. “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

46. “Grandparents should play the same role in the family as an elder statesman can in the government of a country. They have the experience and knowledge that comes from surviving a great many years of life’s battles and the wisdom, hopefully, to recognize how their grandchildren can benefit from this.” -Geoff Dench

47. “The old are the precious gem in the center of the household.” -Chinese Proverb

48. “Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag.” -Helen Thomson

49. “Some of the world’s best educators are grandparents.” Dr. Charlie W. Shedd

50. “Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother.” -G. Norman Collie

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