Love Quotes

"Grandmas and grandpas are grand-angels."

- Terri Guillemets

"It is one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us."

- Igor Stravinsky

"Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child's growth as vitamins."

- Joyce Allston

"Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so books can be opened and read, stories can be told … Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength."

- Ezra Taft Benson

"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."

- Rudolph Giuliani

"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."

- Jimmy Carter

"I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture."

- Susan Strasberg

"Grandparents are both our past and our future. In some ways they are what has gone before, and in others, they are what we will become."

- 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

"God gave us loving grandchildren as a reward for all our random acts of kindness."

- Janet Lanese

"I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear stories about their parents when they were children."

- Al Roker

"Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began."

- Betty Ford

"Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old."

- Mary H. Waldrip

"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

"The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around… Throughout history, ‘tender loving care’ has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing."

- Larry Dossey

"She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person."

- E. Leventhal

"If I had to choose between breathing or loving you, I would say ‘I love you’ with my last breath."

- Shannon Dermott

"Your love is better than ice cream, better than anything else I’ve tried."

- Sarah McLachlan

"If not for you, my sky would fall. Rain would gather, too. Without your love, I’d be nowhere at all. I’d be lost, if not for you."

- Bob Dylan

"They say love is the best investment; the more you give, the more you get in return."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole."

- Buddha

"Love doesn’t grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, and wild leaps."

- Ian McEwan

"True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning."

- Nicholas Sparks

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

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

"I know you've loved me since I was born, but I've loved you my whole life."

"A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside."

"Some of our greatest blessings call us grandma and grandpa."

"Love Knows No Bounds"

"Family surrounds you with unconditional love."