Grandmother Quotes

• A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

  Lois Wyse

  Mother, Children, Grandma

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony

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

  Alex Haley

  Life, Children, Grandpa

  Reader's Digest, 1987.

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• Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

  Andy Rooney

  Grandchildren, Elephants, Grandpa

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.182, PublicAffairs

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• A Grandmother is a safe haven.

  Suzette Haden Elgin

  Safe Haven, Grandparent, Havens

  Suzette Haden Elgin (2000). “The Grandmother Principles”

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• You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

  Albert Einstein

  Mom, Grandma, Science

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Life, Birthday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

  Vivien Leigh

  Godmother, Grand Mother, Load

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• Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love

  Kathy Griffin

  Forever, Always And Forever

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• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Grandma, Grandparent

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

  Robert Breault

  Dog, Children, Grandpa

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• Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

  Gene Perret

  Children, Grandparent, Grandfather

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

  John Milton

  Love, Romantic, Eye

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.241

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• Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

  Grandma Moses

  Grandchildren, Thinking, Grandparent

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• My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.

  Erika Christensen

  Balls, Littles, Back When

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• The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

  Ben Nicholson

  Uncles, Organization, Pages

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

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Children, Grandpa

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

  William Osler

  Grandma, Grandpa, Veins

  The Principles and Practice of Medicine p. 130. Appleton, New York (1892)

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• Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

  Gene Perret

  Grandchildren, Grandparent, Forever

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

  Gene Perret

  Basketball, Mean, Grandchildren

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• I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

  Gene Perret

  Grandchildren, Self, Grandparent

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

  Sara Paretsky

  Proud

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• As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Children, Ghouls, Knowing

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.196, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Grandma, Believe, Grandchildren

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• We have become a grandmother.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Grandma, Grandpa, Iron Lady

  Quoted in Times (London), 4 Mar. 1989

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

  J. Norman Collie

  Men, Grandchildren, Grandpa

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