Quotations about Grandparents and Grandchildren
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Grandmothers are angels — they are not women. ~Richard Le Gallienne, Painted Shadows, 1901
My grandpa is my mother's pa,
I guess that's what all grandpas are.
And sometimes ma, all smiles, will say:
"You didn't always act that way.
When I was little, then you said
That children should be sent to bed
And not allowed to rule the place
And lead old folks a merry chase."
And grandpa laughs and says: "That's true,
That's what I used to say to you.
It is a father's place to show
The young the way that they should go,
But grandpas have a different task.
Which is to get them all they ask."
~Edgar A. Guest, "Grandpa"
And it is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. When a man's mother holds his child in her gladdened arms he is aware (with some instinctive sense of propriety) of the roundness of life's cycle; of the mystic harmony of life's ways. ~Christopher Morley
I wonder what I'd do
Without grandma's kisses night and morn?
~"Flattering Grandma," Pieces for Every Occasion, compiled and arranged by Caroline B. Le Row, 1901
To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo." ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
A grandparent pretends he doesn't know who you are on Halloween. ~Erma Bombeck, "Love Is a Grandparent," 1974
I want to see a grandmother like those there used to be,
In a cosy little farm-house, where I could go to tea;
A grandmother with spectacles and a funny, frilly cap,
Who would make me sugar cookies, and take me on her lap,
And tell me lots of stories of the days when she was small,
When everything was perfect—not like today at all...
~Helen Leah Reed, "A Modern Grandmother," 1905
...grandmothers are always kind... ~Louisa May Alcott, 1854
Elephants and grandchildren never forget. ~Andy Rooney
Who thinks that we are too severe?
His Grandpa...
Who takes him walking down the street,
And shows him off to all they meet,
And buys him stuff he shouldn't eat?
His Grandpa...
Who slips him candy on the sly?
His Grandpa.
Who scoffs at every law we make
To save him from the tummy ache,
And fills him full of chocolate cake?
His Grandpa...
~Edgar A. Guest, "His Grandpa," Just Folks, 1917
All grandmas are so nice!
(Just here he kissed her twice)
And grandmas give a boy 'most anything.
~"Flattering Grandma," Pieces for Every Occasion, compiled and arranged by Caroline B. Le Row, 1901
Papa looked down at his grandson with twitching lips. ~Laura L. Livingstone (Herbert Dickinson Ward), Lauriel: The Love Letters of an American Girl, 1901
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, rbrault.blogspot.com