Grandma Quotes

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Image shows a drawing of a sweet grandma with flower decorations around over a purple background. — Such lovely quotes for a lovely grandma!

“It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.” – Christopher Morley
“There is no other love that’s as special as the love of a grandma. / So warm and fuzzy, so calm and sweet, so cheerful and joyful.” – Hopal Green
“Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild’s ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details. Even when you are wrong. Especially then, in fact. A grandmother is both a sword and a shield.” – Fredrik Backman
“Every parent knows that children look at their grandparents as sources of wisdom and security.” – David Jeremiah
“If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I would’ve had them first.” – Lois Wyse
“A grandma is warm hugs and sweet memories. She remembers all of your accomplishments and forgets all of your mistakes.” – Barbara Cage
“Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren’s eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.” — Sue Monk Kidd
“There are grandmothers out there who would move heaven and earth for their grandchildren.” — Janice Elliott-Howard
“Children are often spoiled because no one will spank grandma.” – Unknown
“For myself, one of the sweetest words I have ever heard is ‘Nana’.” – Zelda Rosenbaum
“Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.” – Unknkown
“A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.” – Unknown
“Every house needs a grandmother in it.” — Louisa May Alcott
“A grandmother is both a sword and a shield.”— Fredrik Backman
“I put my grandma on speed dial, it’s called insta-gram.” – Unknown
“Grandmother opens up a new world of change, challenge, and celebration in a woman’s life.” – Rebecca Barlow Jordan
“My Grandmother would say: ‘Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I’ve taught you to be.'” – Jamie Foxx
“If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” – Italian Proverb
“When a child is born, so are grandmothers.” — Judith Levy
“As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.” — Prince William
“Being an everyday grandmother has kept me young at heart….I am way hipper than most of my friends.” – Trudy Jo Hahn Snader
“I want to be the grandmother who plays inside and outside, experiencing joy with each grandchild, according to his or her personality and interests.” – Sharon Carpenter
“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
“Grandmothers are a gift not to be taken lightly. So many lose them, before they are old enough to know their magic.” – Nikita Gill
“Parent-child relationships are complex. Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.” — Janet Lanese
“If you’re lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them, and celebrate them while you can.” — Regina Brett
“Mommy knows a lot but grandma knows everything.” – Unknown
“Truth be told, being a grandma is as close as we ever get to perfection.” – Bryna Nelson Paston
“Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.” – Marcy DeMaree
“Her crown of white hair seemed to stand like a halo around her in the night sky.” – Lilian Li
“It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother—that’s why the world calls her grandmother.” — Unknown
“If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.” — Linda Stewart Henley
“We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.” – Phyllis Theroux
“Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next, you are all-wise and prehistoric.” – Pam Brown
“A garden of love grows in a Grandmother’s heart.” – Unknown
“Beware! Authentic communication is not to be confused with Grandma’s unfiltered comments!” – Vindy Teja
“Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while…but our hearts forever.” — Unknown
“When it seems the world can’t understand, your grandmother’s there to hold your hand.” — Joyce K. Allen Logan
“Perfect love sometimes does not come til the first grandchild.” – Welsh Proverb
“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
“Being a grandmother provides you with an opportunity to help your grandchild gain a sense of who he or she really is.” – Deborah Williams and Linda A. Johnson
“I could do worse than become my own grandma, or anyone of the strong women who raised us. Our strengths emerged from theirs; we build on their heritage and transform their resilience and competence into our own.” – Regina Barreca
“So, what do I really know about being a grandmother? Well, I remember what I didn’t like as a child. I also loved being a mom, but I have to tell you that being a grandmother has brought a whole new side of life—the fun side—to me.” — Janet Steele
“What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars worth of pleasure.” — Gene Perret
“To all of the grandmothers who make the world more gentle, more tolerant, and more safe for our children. Never doubt your importance.” – Mary Lou Rosengren
“Our grandmother didn’t like the word retirement, she said life is for living not for retiring.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Every parent knows that children look at their grandparents as sources of wisdom and security.” – David Jeremiah
“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
“It’s impossible for a grandmother to understand that few people, and maybe none, will find her grandchild as endearing as she does.” — Janet Lanese
“Grandmothers are voices of the past and role models of the present. Grandmothers open the doors to the future.” — Helen Ketchum
“A grandmother is a safe haven.” – Suzette Haden Elgin
“Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.” – Doug Larson
“There are grandmothers out there who would move heaven and earth for their grandchildren.” – Janice Elliott-Howard
“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.” – Alex Haley
“We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence. Grandmother was that person to me.” —Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
“A grandmother thinks of her grandchildren day and night, even when they are not with her. She will always love them more than anyone would understand.” – Karen Gibbs
“She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them—an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.” – Anne Tyler
“We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence. Grandmother was that person to me.” – Phyllis Theroux
“A grandma is someone who’s dear in every way. Her smile is like the sunshine that brightens each new day.” – Unknown
“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 Whitall Smith
“Just the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.” – Edward H. Dreschnack
“I want to love like my grandmother, who loved a woman like Joseph loved Mary. Someone so imperfect, so human, brave enough to love someone who already knows God.” – R. YS Perez
“A grandma is warm hugs and sweet memories. She remembers all of your accomplishments and forgets all of your mistakes.” – Barbara Cage
“Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.” – Margaret Mead
“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.” —Sam Levenson
“A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of television.” – Unknown
“My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.” – Sherman Alexie
“Grandmothers always have time to talk and make you feel special.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Grandparents and grandchildren, together they create a chain of love linking the past, with the future. The chain may lengthen, but it will never part.” – Unknown
“Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas—that’s what my grandma taught me.” —Lord Chesterfield
“If grandma hadn’t existed, kids would have inevitably invented them.” – Arthur Kornhaber
“The best babysitters, 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
“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.” – Ogden Nash
“My grandchildren may not have everything they want in this world, but that have a grandma that loves them more than anything in this world.” – Unknown
“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” —Proverb
“Grandma serves kisses, counsel, and cookies daily.” – Unknown
“Grandmother. The true power behind the power.” – Lisa Birnbach
“Truth be told, being a grandma is as close as we ever get to perfection. The ultimate warm sticky bun with plump raisins and nuts.” – Bryna Nelson Paston
“The love between a grandmother and granddaughter is forever.” – Unknown
“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.” —Ellen DeGeneres
“Grandmas don’t just say ‘that’s nice’ – they reel back and roll their eyes and throw up their hands and smile. You get your money’s worth out of grandmas.” – Unknown
“A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.” – Erma Bombeck
“It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother, that’s why the world calls her grandmother.” – Unknown
“I believe that God sent us Grandparents as our legacy from above to share the moments of our life as extra measures of His love.” – Unknown
“Don’t eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” —Michael Pollan
“If your baby is ‘beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all of the time’, you’re the grandma.” – Teresa Bloomingdale
“A grandma is someone who’s dear in every way. Her smile is like the sunshine that brightens each new day.” – Unknown
“When the child you love has a child you love with all that is within you, only then will you know just how grand being a grandparent truly is.” – Unknown
“To all of the grandmothers who make the world more gentle, more tolerant, and more safe for our children: Never doubt your importance.” —Mary-Lou Rosengren
“If you think I’m being mean, it means I’m doing my job as your mom. If I was nice, you would call me grandma.” – Unknown
“Grandmothers and roses are much the same. Each is God’s masterpiece with different names.” – Unknown
“A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.” – Charles and Ann Morse
“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
“Grandma doesn’t babysit, she has playdates.” – Unknown
“Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels.” – Lexie Saige
“Who needs a fairy godmother, when you have a grandma.” – Unknown
“I love that I can tell Grandma anything and know that she will always have ears that truly listen and arms that always hold.” – Unknown
“Nobody can replace the love of a grandma. She has this magical ability to make everything feel better.” – Unknown
“Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren’s eyes. Mostly it retaught me to love.” – Sue Monk Kidd
“A grandma’s name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.” – William Shakespeare
“Grandma, you’re my favorite place to visit when my mind searches for peace.” – Unknown.
“One friend came up with the name ‘Glam-ma’, short for Glamorous Grandmother. I loved it!” – Carol L. Covin
“If you are lucky enough to have your grandmother with you, sit and talk with her sometime. Ask her big questions, like what’s the secret to a happy marriage, and little ones, like when was the first time she put on lipstick.” – Erin Bried
“You are the sun, Grandma, you are the sun in my life.” – Kitty Tsui
“I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.” – Susan Strasberg
“She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.” – Madeline L’Engle
“Grandma and Grandpa, tell me a story and snuggle me with your love. When I’m in your arms, the world seems small and we’re blessed by the heavens above.” – Laura Spiess
“Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.” – Alexandra Stoddard
“The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.” – Sam Levenson
“No one … who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.” – Suzanne La Follette
“I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I’ll be very happy.” – Caroline Kennedy
“Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins.” – Joyce Allston
“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
“Happiness is when your grandchild comes and hugs you just because.” – Unknown
“Yes, we are, gulp, older and, sadly, tire more easily, but being a grandmother today can be a sweet and wonderful experience, and many of us have the time and love to give.” – Angela Bowen
“Becoming a grandmother turns the page. Line by line you are rewritten. You are tilted off your old center, spun onto new turf. There’s a faint scent of déjà vu from when you raised your own children, but this place feels freer.” – Lesley Stahl

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