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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.”

“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 like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.”

“Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.”

“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.”