Happy Grandparents Day! Are you searching for the right words to celebrate and honor your grandparents? If you need inspiration, consider the following quotes for Grandparents Day.
- “Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.” — Margaret Mead
- “Love is the greatest gift one generation can leave another.” – Richard Garnett
- When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.” — Ogden Nash
- “Grandmas and grandpas are grand-angels.” – Terri Guillemets
- “Grandparents can be very special resources. Just being close to them reassures a child, without words, about change and continuity, about what went before and what will come after.” — Fred Rogers
- “It is one of nature’s ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.” —Igor Stravinsky
- “Grandparents are a treasure in the family. Please, take care of your grandparents: love them and let them talk to your children!” — Pope Francis
- “My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.” – Henny Youngman
- “Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.” —Alex Haley
- “Grandparents are, without a doubt, some of the world’s best educators.” — Charles W. Shedd
- “The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.” —Sam Levenson
- “Grandparents are always being told that they are living history to their grandchildren, that they give the children the reassurance of their roots. For me and many grandmothers I have talked to, it works the other way as well. They give us continuity.” — Ruth Goode
- “There is nothing more wonderful than the love and guidance a grandparent can give his or her grandchild.” —Edward Fays
- “Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.” —Gene Perret
- “Grandparents are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re there.” —Unknown
- “Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother.” — G. Norman Collie
- “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
- “Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.” — Fanny Fern
- “One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.” — Joy Hargrove
- “Becoming a grandparent is a second chance. For you have a chance to put to use all the things you learned the first time around and may have made mistakes on. It’s all love and no discipline. There’s no thorn in the rose.” —Joyce Brothers
- “Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins.” —Joyce Allston
- “Every house needs a grandmother in it.” — Louisa May Alcott
- “Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag.” — Helen Thomson
- “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
- “A grandmother is a safe haven.” — Suzette Haden Elgin
- “Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.” — Pam Brown
- “Telling stories to my children that I was, in my turn, told by my parents and grandparents makes me feel part of something special and odd, part of the continuous stream of life itself.” —Neil Gaiman
- “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
- “Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.” — Doug Larson
- “Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents’, so books can be opened and read, stories can be told … Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength.” —Ezra Taft Benson
Happy Grandparents Day!
