Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

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

— Pam Brown

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

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Gene Perret

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

— 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

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

— Margaret Mead

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

— Doug Larson

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Ogden Nash

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

— Susan Strasberg

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

— J. Norman Collie

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

— Teresa Bloomingdale

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

— Gene Perret

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

— William Osler

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

— Paulette Alden