Happy Grandparents Day Quotes

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

  Doug Larson

  Grandma, Grandmother, Fighting

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

  Margaret Mead

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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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, Grandmother

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

  Albert Einstein

  Mom, Grandma, Grandmother

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

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• A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

  Erma Bombeck

  Relationship, Fun, Halloween

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• The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

  Doug Larson

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Ideas

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

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Grandma, Grandmother

  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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• 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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• Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

  Andy Rooney

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Elephants

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

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• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

  Gene Perret

  Grandchildren, Grandparent, People

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

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• It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Grandpa, Goofy, Happens

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• Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.

  Liv Ullmann

  Baby, Grandma, Grandmother

  Liv Ullmann (1979). “Without Makeup, Liv Ullmann: A Photo-biography”

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• I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandchildren, Grandparent, Childhood

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

  Robert Breault

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandpa

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• Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Grandparent, Mouths, Want

  "Advice to Grandparents: Hold the Advice" by Karin Kasdin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2012.

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• To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Birthday, Hope, Heart

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

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• Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Naps

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

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• My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

  Henny Youngman

  Good Life, Grandma, Drinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.

  Regina Brett

  Grandparent, Lucky, Cherish

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• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Beautiful, Art

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  If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Motivational, Family

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Baby, Grandma, Grandmother

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.54, Rodale

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• Are we not like two volumes of one book?

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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