Being A Grandma Quotes

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.

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.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

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.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.

“You’re more trouble than the children are” is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

A grandma’s name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars’ worth of pleasure.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

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.

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I’d like to say that grandparents are God’s gifts to children.