Dedicated to my Mom, who is a terrific Great-Grandmother and to my wonderful wife who is an amazing Grandmother. In honor of you both, I wish to share this with the world.

Grandmother Proverbs

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.

Grandmothers are just "antique" little girls.

There's no place like home except Grandma's.

A house needs a grandma in it ~ Louisa May Alcott

A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance.

Never have children, only grandchildren ~ Gore Vidal

Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice.

When a child is born, so are grandmothers ~ Judith Levy.

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

If nothing is going well, call your grandmother ~ Italian Proverb

It's amazing how grandparents seem so young once you become one.

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother.

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

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while…but our hearts forever.

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old ~MaryWaldrip

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense ~Gene Perret

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween ~Erma Bombeck

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother~ Proverb

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild ~Welsh Proverb

Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.

A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure ~ Gene Perret

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

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 W Smith

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Granddaddies have only so many horsy rides in them ~ Gene Perret

Grandmother always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete ~ Marcy DeMaree

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

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 are grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida ~ Dave Barry

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

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather ~ Joy Hargrove

If your baby is beautiful & perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule & burps on demand, an angel all the time, you're the grandma. ~ Teresa Bloomingdale

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

Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren.

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother! ~ G. Norman Collie

Enjoy!

I was inspired to compile this list as I watched how much joy our grandchildren bring to my wife, and thus to me. It has also made me take notice of how much my Mom enjoys here grandchildren AND Great grandchildren. And to both of you, the joy is mutual. I love you both.