Family & Pets
15 quotes that prove grandparents are the best
They say there’s nothing like a mother’s love, but if anything comes close, it would have to be the love of a grandparent. From showering their littlies with love, gifts and smiles to teaching them about their family, life and the world, there’s no bond quite like that between a grandparent and their grandchild. To prove it, we’ve put together 15 of the most touching (and accurate) quotes about being a grandparent, and we think you’ll enjoy them.
- “A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.” – Charles and Ann Morse
- “What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humour, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.” – Rudy Giuliani
- “Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends — and hardly ever our own grown children.” – Ruth Goode
- “If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.” – Lois Wyse
- “Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.” – Allan Frome
- “Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.” – Marcy DeMaree
- “They say genes skip generations. Maybe that’s why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.” – Joan McIntosh
- “To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.” – Robert Brault
- “If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” – Italian proverb
- “One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.” – Joy Hargrove
- “Kids are hard – they drive you crazy and break your heart – whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these years.” – Anne Lamott
- “There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.” – Victor Hugo
- “What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars’ worth of pleasure.” – Gene Perret
- “A grandparent is someone with silver in their hair and gold in their heart.” – Unknown
- “Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.” – Alex Haley.
Tell us in the comments below, what’s your favourite thing about being a grandparent?