54 Quotes About Grandparents

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

Grandparents are convinced they’re better parents than their own kids, whose lives they’ve already fucked up.

...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.]

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.

I am convinced there's a gramma gene that disables the word "no.

Well." Eli cleared his throat. He didn't have to talk to Tyler about the ways and means of sex.Thank Christ. He'd done that deed years before. His grandson was a grown man, who knew about thebirds and bees, and about responsibility. But…"Holy hell, Ty. You and Sophie.""It just happened," he said again. "I guess it shouldn't have, and I guess I should tell you it won'thappen again.

Plus I have no doubt that their garden is also where my grandparents dreamed—for a better life of equality for their grandchildren and future generations. As people rooted in their faith, they probably did a lot of praying here as well, that God would deliver us all to prosperity and peace beyond this plot of land.

It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. 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.

It’s often said when a baby is born so is a grandparent; well, for me it turned out that when I was born it was also the birth of a Ding Dong.