GRANDPARENTS/GRANDCHILDREN

Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren, but the sinner’s wealth passes to the godly.

Proverbs 13:22

Grandchildren are the crowning glory of the aged; parents are the pride of their children.

Proverbs 17:6

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

Sam Levenson

Admission: My life was organized until I became a grandparent.

The grandparents’ job is to give their grandchildren roots and wings.

A grandparent must recognize the value of generational continuity.

What’s done to children, they will do to society.

Dr. Karl Menninger

Nothing is harder on a grandparent than watching a grandchild being corrected.

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

Alex Haley

Grandmas don’t have to do anything—just be there.

A grandfather is a man-grandmother.

What Is a Grandmother? (Written by a ninety-four-year-old)

My hair is white and I’m almost blind.

The days of my youth are far behind.

My neck is stiff, can’t turn my head,

And I really listen to hear what’s said.

My legs are wobbly, can’t hardly walk,

But, glory be, I sure can talk!

And this is the message I want you to get,

I can still get around—and I ain’t dead yet!

If Mother says no, ask Grandmother.

My grandmother actually smells like a cookie and that’s enough to get any child’s attention.

Lee Bailey

Some of our modern grandparents are so young and spry that they help Boy Scouts across the street.

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

Her: “Have I told you about my grandchildren?” Him: “No, and I thank you very much!”

Did you hear about the grandparents who were so tickled that their grandchildren were coming to visit for a week that they put an extra five dollars in the offering plate at church? When the grandchildren went home at the end of the week, the grandparents’ joy must have doubled because that Sunday they put a ten-dollar bill in the plate.

Being grandparents is God’s reward for growing old.

God couldn’t be everywhere, so he invented grandparents.

Grandparents: the people to take the baby to for an overmauling.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln

A grandparent: a grandchild’s press secretary.

I’ve seen the lights of Paris,

I’ve seen the lights of Rome,

But the greatest lights I’ve seen so far

Are the taillights on my children’s car

Taking my grandkids home.

There’s only one perfect grandchild in the world, and every grandparent has it.

Grandparent: a baby-sitter who doesn’t hang around the refrigerator.

Grandparents are parents who have a second chance.

Just about the time she thinks her work is done, a mother becomes a grandmother.