Being a grandma Quotes

"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

— Gene Perret

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

— William Osler

On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

— Gene Perret

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

— Art Linkletter

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

— Doug Larson

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

— Ogden Nash

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

— Lois Wyse

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

— J. Norman Collie

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

— Margaret Mead

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

— Gene Perret

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one.…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at…

— Fanny Fern

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

— Gene Perret

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

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

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

— Bill Cosby

Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself…

— Liv Ullmann

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or…

— Teresa Bloomingdale

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Paulette Alden

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in…

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Susan Strasberg

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

— Gene Perret

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.

— Gene Perret

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

— Pam Brown