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Quotes By and About Grandparents, Part II
Feb 18, 2022 11:08:35   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
“Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.” – Unknown

“If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” – Italian Proverb

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

“Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.” – Edward H Dreschnack

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

“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.” – Fanny Fern

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.” – Marjory Barslow-Greenbie

“As you are now so once were we.” – James Joyce

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

“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 hope.” – Geoff Dench

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

“The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children’s children. Is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future.” – Charles and Ann Morse

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

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu

“A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside.” –Unknown

“Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old.” –Mary H Waldrip

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

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

“If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.” – Linda Henley

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

“Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.” – Unknown

“To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word ‘boo.’” – Robert Brault

“The best place to be when you’re sad is grandpa’s lap.” – Unknown

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

“Grandmas don’t just say ‘that’s nice’—they reel back and roll their eyes and throw up their hands and smile. You get your money’s worth out of grandmas.” – Unknown

“It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother—that’s why the world calls her grandmother.” – Unknown

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Feb 18, 2022 11:13:29   #
Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon
 
All of them good quotes.

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