Family Quotes

"Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being."

- Margaret Mead

"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

"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

"Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother."

- G. Norman Collie

"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

"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, 10, and 11."

- Bryna Nelson Paston

"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

"A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world."

- Charles and Ann Morse

"My grandfather was a wonderful role model. Through him, I got to know the gentle side of men."

- Sarah Long

"To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word 'boo.'"

- Nicholas Brault

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

- Alex Haley

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

- Gene Perret

"You are the sun, Grandma, you are the sun in my life."

- Kitty Tsui

"The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy."

- Sam Levenson

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature / But beautiful old people are works of art."

- Marjory Barstow-Greenbie

"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

"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 Whitall Smith

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

- Christopher Morley

"A grandmother is a safe haven."

- Suzette Haden Elgin

"I didn’t give you the gift of life, but life gave me the gift of you."

"Families are the individual parts that make up the whole world. Humanity depends on their togetherness."

"Without family bonds, there isn't anything in the universe strong enough to hold people together."

"When you choose to swim with family, you're creating a natural safety net from the dangers of the world."

"Your family needs you as much as you need them; that's why it's important to stick together."

"There's no one in the world more equipped and prepared to help you thrive than your family."

"The bonds of family provide a safe haven in a tumultuous world."

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

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

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

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