Happy Grandparents Day Quotes - Page 2

• Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

  Jimmy Carter

  Responsibility, Pride, Grandchildren

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

  Gore Vidal

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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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, Grandmother

  Reader's Digest, 1987.

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

  Gene Perret

  Children, Grandmother, Grandparent

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

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• On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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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, Grandmother

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• A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Beautiful, Baby, Grandma

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

  Ogden Nash

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.

  Jay Kesler

  Past, Grandchildren, Giving

  Jay Kesler (1993). “Grandparenting: The Agony and the Ecstasy”, Vine Books

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

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• Beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Art, Nursing

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• Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.

  Umair Haque

  Grandchildren, Grandpa, Leader

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• Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!

  Abu Yahya al-Libi

  Grandparent, Shining, Looks

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• "You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

  Gene Perret

  Children, Grandpa, Compliment

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

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