The 30 Best Grandma Quotes

Grandma quotes

To avoid the scorching sun, we all like to sit in the shade of a big tree and wish that the shade remains there for a longer time. The same is with our grandparents. They are like bid shady trees in our lives protecting us from any kind of danger and try to soothe us. As the grandchildren are born, the grandparents experience rebirth too.

Grandmothers never find anything wrong in their grandchildren. The little grandchildren make the grandmother feel that they are also wanted in this world and everything has not come to an end for them. There are many social values which the children pick up when they are with their grandparents. The infinite love of the grandparents makes the grandchildren feel that special emotional bonding that unites them forever, and we have summarized it in this compilation of the 30 best grandma quotes.

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

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

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“Grandmothers are wonderful ladies who always seem to place others in front of themselves.”

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"Being a grandmother provides you with an opportunity to help your grandchild gain a sense of who he or she really is."

Deborah Williams & Linda A. Johnson

“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

"As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother."

Prince William

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

Italian Proverb

“My grandmother is my angel on earth.”

Catherine Pulsifer

“Grandmother" doesn’t mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.”

Carine Roitfeld

“A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.”

Erma Bombeck

"Parent-child relationships are complex. Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love."

Janet Lanese

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

William Shakespeare

“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

"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

“Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do – or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It’s sound advice.”

Walter Anderson

“Many of my friends were grandmothers and, without exception, they said, "Until you become a grandmother, you can't understand how it feels."

Barbara LoMonaco

“My grandmother always used to say, “If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?” I always remember this and it’s true. You have to start each day again—you can’t repeat what you did.”

Marian Seldes

"Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day, and now the day was complete."

Marcy DeMaree

"Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric."

Pam Brown

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

Welsh Proverb

"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

"When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window."

Ogden Nash

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

Christopher Morley

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

Alex Haley

"A grandmother is both a sword and a shield."

Fredrik Backman

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

Edward H. Dreschnack

“Becoming a grandmother turns the page. Line by line you are rewritten. You are tilted off your old center, spun onto new turf. There’s a faint scent of déjà vu from when you raised your own children, but this place feels freer.”

Lesley Stahl

"Since the beginning of time, grandmothers have been the negotiators and peacemakers in their families. Grandmothers are voices of the past and role models of the present. Grandmothers open the doors to the future.”

"A garden of love grows in a grandmother’s heart.”

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