We have become a grandmother.

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 life. And,…

— Rudy Giuliani

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

— Art Linkletter

Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip…

— Hal Boyle

The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big,…

— Fred Rogers

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

— Susan Strasberg

Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In…

— Alvin Francis Poussaint

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

— Alice Walker

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

— William Shakespeare

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

Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch…

— Lucretius

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

— Eda LeShan

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

— Ogden Nash