Grandparents - Grandchildern

• Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
  ~ Author Unknown
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
  ~ Welsh Proverb
  
  
• A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.
  ~ Author Unknown
  
  
• Never have children, only grandchildren.
  ~ Gore Vidal
  
  
• Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
  ~ Pam Brown
  
  
• Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Grandfathers have only so many horsy rides in them.
  ~ Gene Perret
  
  
• When grandpa enters the door, discipline flies out the window.
  ~ Ogden Nash
  
  
• Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.
  ~ Marcy DeMaree
  
  
• Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.
  ~ Author unknown
  
  
• Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.
  ~ Author Unknown
  
  
• If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
  ~ Lois Wyse
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.
  ~ Mary H. Waldrip
  
  
• You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
  ~ Proverb
  
  
• An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
  ~ Gene Perret
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
  ~ Alex Haley
  
  
• Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice.
  ~ Author Unknown
  
  
• A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside.
  ~ Author Unknown
  
  
• One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.
  ~ Joy Hargrove
  
  
• It's amazing how grandparents seem so young once you become one.
  ~ Author Unknown
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around. and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren.
  ~ Author Unknown
  
  
• Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
  ~ G. Norman Collie

[ Author Unknown -- from Patricia, via 'Buffalos Chips' (buffalos-g-jokes.yahoogroups.com) ]