Friday 9 August 2013

Grandparents Day


Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.  ~Author Unknown


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


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


The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.  ~Sam Levenson, You Don't Have to Be in "Who's Who" to Know What's What


I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H


When a child is born, so are grandmothers.  ~Judith Levy


Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.  ~Author Unknown


If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.  ~Italian Proverb


Grandchildren:  the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.  ~Gene Perret


Never have children, only grandchildren.  ~Gore Vidal


Do you know why grandchildren are always so full of energy?  They suck it out of their grandparents.  ~Gene Perret


It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother.  ~Author Unknown


On the seventh day God rested.  His grandchildren must have been out of town.  ~Gene Perret


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

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.  ~Mary H. Waldrip


Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.  ~Doug Larson


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


A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.  ~Author Unknown


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.  ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi


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


You don't choose your family.  They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.  ~Desmond Tutu


No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.  ~Author Unknown


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

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.  ~Jane Howard


Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.  ~Edward H. Dreschnack

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