Why we are called grandparents

2009-04-01 / Living & Style

submitted by Alice Grow

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.

~Author Unknown

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

~Gene Perret

Grandmothers are just "antique" little girls.

~Author Unknown

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

~ Welsh Proverb

A grandmother is a baby-sitter who watches the kids instead of the television. ~Author Unknown

Never have children, only grandchildren.

~Gore Vidal

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

~Pam Brown

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because grandfathers have only so many horsy rides in them.

~Gene Perret

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

~Ogden Nash Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.

~ Marcy DeMaree

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.

~Author unknown

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.

~Author Unknown

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

~Lois Wyse

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

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

~Hannah Whi thal l Smith

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother.

~Author Unknown

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.

~Mary H. Waldrip You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

~Proverb

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

~Gene Perret

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida .

~Dave Barry

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for selfdefense.

~Gene Perret

Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.

~Author Unknown

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

~Alex Haley

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