Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where…

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

— Gene Perret

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

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

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

I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward even after we are…

— Anne Cassidy

“The knowledge of the Universe is not secret, but is placed in the heart of every grandma and grandpa who have nothing and yet…

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D

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

— William Osler

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

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

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or…

— Robert Hass

My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to…

— Carolina Herrera

“I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, and my grandchildren, my mother, my dog,…

— Isabel Allende