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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.”

“Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.”

“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.”

“Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.”

“You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.”

“Beautiful old people are works of art.”

“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”

“An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.”

“My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.”

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

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

“Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.”

“I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.”

“What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.”

“I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.”

“Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.”

“Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.”

“My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.”

“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”

“The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.”

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

“Elephants and grandchildren never forget.”

“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.”

“Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.”

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”

“A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.”

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”

“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.”

“What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.”

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”

“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.”

“What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.”

“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.”

“Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.”

“If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.”

“Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.”

“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”

“Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.”

“The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.”

“To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.”

“Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.”

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

“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.”

“I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.”

“Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.”

“I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.”