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. – Rudolph Giuliani

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

On the seventh day God rested.  His grandchildren must have been out of town. – Gene Perret

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. – Lois Wyse

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. – Rita Rudner

It’s amazing how grandparents seem so young once you become one. – Author Unknown

I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather – not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. – Will Shriner

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses.  Drinks right out of the bottle. – Henry Youngman

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. – 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

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I’d find the same set of grandkids. – Robert Brault

A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance. – Author Unknown

Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a Grandmother. – Anonymous Author

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

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. – Gail Lumet Buckley

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. – Lewis Mumford

Grandchildren:  the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. – Gene Perret

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. – Sam Levenson

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. – Paulette Bates Alden

Elephants and grandchildren never forget. – Andy Rooney

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

What a bargain grandchildren are!  I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars’ worth of pleasure. – Gene Perret

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. – Alex Haley

Never have children, only grandchildren. – Gore Vidal

It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. – Igor Stravinsky

My granddaughter came to spend a few weeks with me, and I decided to teach her to sew.  After I had gone through a lengthy explanation of how to thread the machine, she stepped back, put her hands on her hips, and said in disbelief, “You mean you can do all that, but you can’t play my Game Boy?” – Author Unknown

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

Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things. – Author Unknown

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. – Irish Saying

A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart. – Author Unknown