~Margaret Mead
We must be the change we wish to see.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
~ Origin Unknown
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~ Serenity Prayer
If you don't like something, change it. It you can't change it, change your attitude.
~ Maya Angelou
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenges and controversy.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
~ Robert Schuller
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.
~ Gene Perret
Grandmothers are just antique little girls.
~ Author Unknown
Grandfathers are just antique little boys.
~ Author Unknown
A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.
~ Charles and Ann Morse
A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.
~ Author Unknown
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
When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
~ Judith Levy
Never have children, only grandchildren.
~ Gore Vidal
If God had intended us to follow recipes, he wouldn't have given us grandmothers.
~ Linda Henley
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
~ Pam Brown
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
~ Phyllis Theroux
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.
~ Marcy DeMaree
Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.
~ Author Unknown
Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
~Lois Wyse
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
It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.
~ Christopher Morley
A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.
~ Author Unknown
Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.
~ Author Unknown
They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.
~ Joan McIntosh
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
~ Margaret Mead
My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.
~ Gene Perret
I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.
~ Susan Strasberg
If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
~ Hannah Whithall Smith
It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother.
~ Author Unknown
Do you know why grandchildren are always so full of energy? They suck it out of their grandparents.
~ Gene Perret
Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.
~ Mary H. Waldrip
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
~ Gene Perret
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
~ Art Linkletter
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
I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.
~ Gene Perret
Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.
~ Author Unknown
One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.
~ Joy Hargrove
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
~ Gene Perret
A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.
~ Author Unknown
The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children's children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future.
~ Charles and Ann Morse
Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren.
~ Author Unknown
What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.
~ Bill Cosby
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.
~ Lord Chesterfield
No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.
~ Author Unknown
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
~ Erma Bombeck
My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.
~ Gene Perret
Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
~ Rita Rudner
Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.
~ Edward H. Dreschnack
