When I look at my Grandparents, I think of how much love and joy they brought into my heart. Grandchildren often turn to their grandparents for unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, and life lessons. The lives of little children are undoubtedly shaped by their wonderful grandparents as role models. Grandparents are gifts to every family. They’re the foundation of the family are filled with wisdom and kindness.

So, if you’re a grandmother, a grandfather, or a grandchild looking for the perfect words to celebrate that special bond that only exists between grandparents and their grandchildren, then these grandparents’ quotes are sure to make you smile. Show a bunch of love towards them with these fun and inspiring grandparents quotes, so they know just how special they are to you in your life.

Heartwarming Quotes About Grandparents

Top 10 Grandparents Quotes

“Young people need something stable to hang on to — a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.” – Jay Kesler

“You will never look back on life and think, ‘I’ve spent too much time with my grandchildren.’”

“You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know how to get it right.” – Liz Fenton

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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

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

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

“They say genes skip generations. Maybe that’s why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.” – Joan McIntosh

“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.” – Dave Barry

“Telling stories to my children that I was, in my turn, told by my parents and grandparents makes me feel part of something special and odd, part of the continuous stream of life itself.” – Neil Gaiman

Short Grandparents Quotes

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“There is no distance that can lessen a grandparent’s love.”

“Love each other. Love our children. Love our children’s children.”

“I love you to the moon and back, to infinity and beyond, forever and ever.”

“I know you’ve loved me since I was born, but I’ve loved you my whole life.”

“Grandparents are the perfect blend of love, laughter, and happy memories.”

“Grandparents are the best kind of grownups.”

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

“The best place to be when you’re sad is your grandparent’s lap.”

“The best parents get promoted to grandparents.”

“Some of our greatest blessings call us grandma and grandpa”

“Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.” – Art Linkletter

“Parents know a lot, but grandparents know everything.”

“If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” – Italian proverb

“Grandpas always have time for you when everyone else is too busy.”

“Grandparents make the world… a little softer, a little kinder, a little warmer.”

“Grandparents hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.”

“Grandparents hold our hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.”

“A grandmother is a safe haven.” – Suzette Haden Elgin

“A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.”

“A house needs a grandma in it.” – Louisa May Alcott

“A grandparent is old on the outside, but young on the inside.”

“As you are now so once were we.” – James Joyce

“Being a grandparent means you can be as silly you want to be.”

“Elephants and grandchildren never forget.” – Andy Rooney

“Every house needs a grandmother in it.” – Louisa May Alcott

“Grandfathers are just antique little boys.”

“Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.”

“Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.”

“Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.”

“Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.”

“Grandmas and grandpas are grand-angels.” – Terri Guillemets

“Grandma serves kisses, counsel, and cookies daily.”

Funny Grandparents Quotes

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“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

“The fastest way to locate your grandchildren? Turn off the WiFi – they’ll appear like magic.”

“Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent.” – Donald A. Norberg

“Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels.” – Lexie Saige

“Something magical happens when parents turn into grandparents.” – Paul Linden

“Some of the world’s best educators are grandparents.” – Charles W. Shedd

“Some grandmas took their grandchildren to parks, or bought them books and dolls, or shared their special stories. Her grandma shared her recipes.” – Amy E. Reichert

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

“Never have children, only grandchildren.” – Gore Vidal

“My grandparents suffered through the Depression, World War II, then came home to build the greatest middle class in human history. Lord knows they weren’t perfect, but they sure came closest to the American dream.” – Max Brooks

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.” – Ellen DeGeneres

“It’s funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you’d do. It’s terrific.” – Mike Krzyzewski

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

“I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.” – Ronnie Milsap

“I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do… I may not have a mate or husband, but I’m definitely not a single parent.” – Jill Scott

“I stand here today – in the shadow of my parents’ and grandparents’ accomplishments – because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future.” – David Ige

“I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I’ll be very happy.” – Caroline Kennedy

Grandparents Quotes Love

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“You never know the love of a grandparent until you become one.”

“When the child you love has a child you love with all that is within you, only then will you know just how grand being a grandparent truly is.”

“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

“There is nothing more wonderful than the love and guidance a grandparent can give his or her grandchild.” – Edward Fays

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

“Love is the most important gift that one generation can leave to another.” – Richard Garnett

“Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.” – Richard Garnett

“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

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

Grandparents are the family’s strong foundation. Their very special love sets them apart. Through happiness and sorrow, through their special love and caring, grandparents keep a family close at heart.”

“Grandparents are a treasure in the family. Please, take care of your grandparents: love them and let them talk to your children!” – Pope Francis

“Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories, and love.”

“From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy… This may explain why grandparents are in love with buying grandkids pajamas and bathrobes.” – Holly Goldberg Sloan

“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.” – President Jimmy Carter

“A Grandmother thinks of her grandchildren day and night, even when they are not with her. She will always love them more than anyone would understand.” – Karen Gibbs

“It’s special, grandparents and grandchildren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one’s child takes a part of one’s heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.” – Kate Morton

“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.” – Rudy Giuliani

First Time Grandparents Quotes

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“Becoming a grandparent is a second chance. For you have a chance to put to use all the things you learned the first time around and may have made mistakes on. It’s all love and no discipline. There’s no thorn in the rose.” – Joyce Brothers

“Grandparents should play the same role in the family as an elder statesman can in the government of a country.” – Geoff Dench

“Grandparents can be very special resources. Just being close to them reassures a child, without words, about change and continuity, about what went before and what will come after.” – Fred Rogers

“Grandparents are, without a doubt, some of the world’s best educators.” – Charles W. Shedd

“Grandparents are voices of the past and the door to the future. They provide us with the wisdom from a lifetime of experience that should never be undervalued.”

“Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.” – Gene Perret

“Grandparents are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re there.”

“Grandparents are like magicians. They can create wonderful memories for their grandchildren out of thin air.”

“Grandparents are always being told that they are living history to their grandchildren, that they give the children the reassurance of their roots. For me and many grandmothers I have talked to, it works the other way as well. They give us continuity.” – Ruth Goode

“don’t ever, ever underestimate the will of a Grandfather. We’re madmen, we don’t give a damn; we got here before you and they will be here after you. We’ll make enemies, we’ll break laws, we’ll break bones, but you will not mess with the grandchildren!” – President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen), The West Wing

“Children brought up by their grandparents are generally spoiled.” – Spanish Proverb

“Blessed are those who spoil and snuggle, hug and hope, pray and pamper, for they shall be called grandparents.”

“Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.” – Allan Frome

“Being an everyday grandmother has kept me young at heart, I know all the newest fads and fancies. I am way hipper than most of my friends.” – Trudy Jo Hahn Snader

“Being a grandmother provides you with an opportunity to help your grandchild gain a sense of who he or she really is.” – Deborah Williams and Linda A. Johnson

“Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next, you are all-wise and prehistoric.” – Pam Brown

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.” – Marjory Barlow-Greenbie

Thankful For Grandparents Quotes

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

“You are the sun, Grandma, you are the sun in my life.” – Kitty Tsui

“Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy—the mother.” – Claudette Colbert

“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones

“When it seems the world can’t understand, your grandmother’s there to hold your hand.” – Joyce K. Allen Logan

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

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

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

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

“I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.” – Ariana Grande

“I am convinced there’s a gramma gene that disables the word ‘no.’” – Lesley Stahl

“I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to ‘just go to the library and open up an e-mail account — it’s free and so simple.’” – Scott Douglas

“Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing — rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.” – C.S. Lewis

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

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

“Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins.” – Joyce Allston

“Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren’s eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.” – Sue Monk Kidd

“Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.” – Marcy DeMaree

“Grandfathers know a lot. I know this because I am a grandfather and I feel like I know a lot of things, and frankly I’m rarely wrong.” – Blaine Pardoe

“Grandchildren don’t need a lot of toys. The best thing a grandchild can have is a grandparent who gets down on the floor and plays with them.”

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

“Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother.” – G. Norman Collie

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

“Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old.” – Mary H. Waldrip

“Grandchildren are a grandparent’s link to the future. Grandparents are the child’s link to the past.”

“Going to see my grandparents was the highlight of my childhood summers…. I was doted upon, admired, entertained and overfed. I was never more content and happy.” – Carolyn Anthony

“As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.” – Prince William

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

“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

“A man’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“A grandparent is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.”

“A grandparent has silver in their hair and gold in their heart.”

“A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.” – Erma Bombeck

Missing Grandparents Quotes

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“She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.” – Madeleine L’Engle

“Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to do, by putting fears and doubts to one side, by weighing immediate comforts against the possibility of larger, even intangible, comforts.” – Joan Didion

“Parent-child relationships are complex. Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.” – Janet Lanese

“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

“One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.” – Joy Hargrove

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

“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

“My grandfather was a wonderful role model. Through him I got to know the gentle side of men.” – Sarah Long

“My grandfather was a giant of a man… When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.” – Eth Clifford

“My granddaughter and I are inseparable. She keeps me wrapped around her little finger.” – Gene Perret

“My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised.” – Kristina McMorris

“Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag.” – Helen Thomson

New Grandparents Quotes

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

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

“No spring, nor summer hath such grace. As I have seen in one autumnal face.” – John Donne

“No one… who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.” – Suzanne La Follette

“It’s special, grandparents and grandchildren. So much simpler.” – Kate Morton

“It’s funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you’d do. It’s terrific.” – Mike Krzyzewski

“It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother — that’s why the world calls her grandmother.”

“It’s impossible for a grandmother to understand that few people, and maybe none, will find her grandchild as endearing as she does.” – Janet Lanese

“It seems to me that sometimes the worst parents make the best grandparents. I’m not sure why. Maybe because there is enough of a generational separation that they don’t see their grandchildren as an extension of themselves, so their relationship isn’t tainted by any self-loathing. And of course, just growing older seems to soften and relax people.” – Sarah Silverman

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

“It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.” – Christopher Morley

“In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.” – Margaret Mead

“In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child’s parent or grandparent.” – Don Marquis

“In my grandparents’ time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere…in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything… I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.” – Hayao Miyazaki

“From Alan Lightman’s intricate 1993 novel Einstein’s Dreams; set in Berne in 1905: With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great-grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.” – Christopher Hitchens

“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it ‘opportunity.’” – Charles J. Sykes

“Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.” – Doug Larson

“Family is the most important thing in the world.” – Princess Diana

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

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

Grandparents In Heaven Quotes

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“Grandma and Grandpa, tell me a story and snuggle me with your love. When I’m in your arms, the world seems small and we’re blessed by the heavens above.” – Laura Spiess

“I love my Grandma because they used to play games with me, now also i remember that lovely and unforgettable moments spent with them.”

“I have never stopped thinking about till now because everyday you are in my heart.”

“The best place to be in peace is your Grandma’s lap.”

“Sometimes i just look at the sky and smile and say you are still here with me in my heart.”

“That is the very hard time when all the children are happily celebrating Grandparents day and you are alone without your Grandparents and missing them very badly.”

“There are grandmothers out there who would move heaven and earth for their grandchildren.” – Janice Elliott-Howard

“Grandparents are like a sunshine for whole family, If they are not in the family, it becomes family without light.”

“Dear Grandpa i know that you are not here in this world but you will be alive in my heart, in my soul ever.”

“My dearest Grandparents there is not a one day when i don’t remember you.”

“Every night i look up to the stars think that what it would if your were still with me.”

“I am really very missing grandparents of mine. Never wanted to let them go far from me.”

“I used to spent more time with my Grandparents but the bad thing is they are no more in my life. Missing Grandparents very much.”

“They kids are happy who have their Grandparents in their life and can play games with them.”

“My lovely Grandpa, I miss you very hardly and want you front of my eyes always. – Happy Grandparents Day my handsome Grandpa!”

“Some days i just sit in the peace of mind and remember that how happy i was with my Grandparents.”

“I have never thought that my life will be changed so much without my Grandparents.”

“I know you are no more here front of my eyes but i just wish to God keep you happy wherever you are.”

Grandparents Quotes From Grandchildren

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“We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did — a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now-vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

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

“Unconditional positive regard is rarely given by anyone except a grandparent.”

“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

“Truth be told, being a grandma is as close as we ever get to perfection. The ultimate warm sticky bun with plump raisins and nuts. Clouds nine, ten, and eleven.” – Bryna Nelson Paston

“There will never be a day like the day your grandchild was born.”

“There is nothing like grandchildren in your arms to put a smile on your face, a lump in your throat, and a warm feel in your heart.”

“There are no words to describe the happiness in holding your baby’s baby.”

“The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.” – Elizabeth Goudge

“The smart, kind, beautiful child… must have got it from their grandparents.”

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

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

“The old are the precious gem in the center of the household.” – Chinese Proverb

“Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents’ generation and from your children’s generation too. They’ll never understand you and they’ll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: ‘There’s a chip off the old block,’ and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: ‘What an old rip Grandma must have been!’ and they’ll try to be like you.” – Margaret Mitchell

“Like many men and women who make egregious and irretrievable mistakes with their own children, she would redeem herself by becoming the perfect grandmother.” – Pat Conroy

“Kisses, cuddles, cookies, and treats, days spent with our grandparents are always so sweet.”

“Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.” – Edward H. Dreschnack

“I’m not spoiled. I’m just well taken care of by my grandparents.” – Spanish proverb

“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.” – Teresa Bloomingdale

“If you’re lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.” – Regina Brett

“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.” – Lois Wyse

“If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.” – Linda Henley

“If children are the rainbow of life, then grandchildren are the pot of gold.”

“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

“I’m world famous. Throughout the globe—north, south, east, and west — there are literally four people who know my name. It’s great to have all four grandparents still living, and widely dispersed around the world.” – Jarod Kintz

“I’m the twinkle in my Grandpa’s eye….”

“I’m made up of the memories of my parents and my grandparents, all my ancestors. They’re in the way I look, in the color of my hair. And I’m made up of everyone I’ve ever met who’s changed the way I think.” – Terry Pratchett

“I’m going to be your grandpa! I have the biggest smile. I’ve been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.” – Billy Crystal

“A grandma is warm hugs and sweet memories. She remembers all of your accomplishments and forgets all of your mistakes.” – Barbara Cage

“A grandma is someone who’s dear in every way. Her smile is like the sunshine that brightens each new day.”

“A grandfather: is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.” – Twinkle Steel

“A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.” – Charles and Ann Morse

“A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his grandfather.” – Angie Papadakis

Final Thoughts

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There is no doubt that grandparents play an essential role in their grandchildren’s lives. They are this incredible source of security, wisdom, and endless love. The bond between grandfathers and grandmothers with the rest of their families is just so special. You can see why they are easily respected and loved.

These grandparents’ quotes will warm your heart and remind you to call them—we bet they’re going to be delighted to hear from you! What are some of your favorites? Share in the comments below!

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