These grandma quotes will inspire you. Grandmother, the mother of one’s father or mother. When grandma is at home life becomes happier. Having grandparents around is a blessing.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging grandma quotes, grandma sayings, and grandma proverbs.
Best Grandma Quotes
- “Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.” ~ Pam Brown
- “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.” ~ Rudy Giuliani , Love my grandma quotes
- “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
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“Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.” ~ Lois Wyse
- “The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.” ~ Sam Levenson
- “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.” ~ Lois Wyse
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“We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.” ~ Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
- “A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.” ~ Lois Wyse
- “As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.” ~ Prince William
- “A grandma’s name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.” ~ Gore Vidal
- “This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.” ~ Rick Bragg
- “My grandma’s the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she’s doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!” ~ Jeff Foxworthy
- “Does Grandpa love to babysit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor’s or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.” ~ Hal Boyle
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“A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “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
- “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
- “We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.” ~ Steven Tyler
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“Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.” ~ Art Linkletter
- “What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars’ worth of pleasure.” ~ Gene Perret
- “Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.” ~ Allan Sherman
- “We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer
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“She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
- “Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren’s eyes. Mostly, it retaught me, love.” ~ Sue Monk Kidd
- “Yes, I always remember my dad’s, mom’s, and my grandma’s perfumes.” ~ Marc Jacobs
- “I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.” ~ Mary E. Pearson
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“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.” ~ Ogden Nash
- “Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, “Smile, Grandma!” – I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother’s lap.” ~ Liv Ullmann
- “A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. 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
- “I didn’t realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn’t even know that until a year or two ago.” ~ Alan Jackson
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“Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.” ~ Margaret Mead
- “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.” ~ Ellen DeGeneres
- “Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas – that’s what my grandma taught me.” ~ Lord Chesterfield
- “On the other hand, I don’t understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise, Grandma wouldn’t have thrown it out.” ~ Arne Jacobsen
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“My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.” ~ Henny Youngman
- “But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.” ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
- “If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?” ~ Al Sharpton
- “Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.” ~ Carson Daly
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“Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.” ~ Doug Larson
- “I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in ‘The New Leave It to Beaver.’ She did. Sure, she was a councilwoman. She went to work. She wasn’t a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.” ~ Barbara Billingsley
- “Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom’s best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.” ~ Marla Sokoloff , Grandma quotes life
- “Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.” ~ Paulette Alden
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“I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.” ~ Susan Strasberg
- “My grandmother told a story that when they used to leave from Southampton to go into the City because he had apartment buildings in Queens – I was born in Astoria, Queens – they had apartment buildings in Queens and Manhattan, different businesses, and she wanted to pick blueberries on the side of the road and he wouldn’t stop, so my grandma used to throw her purse out the window. She never had less than $4,000 cash, back in the 20s, and he would then stop the car and she would pick blueberries. And, he never had a record.” ~ Robert Davi
- “I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “My grandma always said, “Trouble is what God uses to prepare you for better things!” If you have trouble in your life, you are in a valley. If you are in a valley, you are being prepared for something bigger, better, greater; something you probably could not handle now.” ~ Iyanla Vanzant
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“So many things we love are you!” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn’t have any excuse to be stupid.” ~ Joan Bauer
- “When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: “She’s doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.” ~ Janet Evanovich
- “Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
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“Our mothers and grandmothers … moving to music not yet written.” ~ Alice Walker
- “The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‘I’m not interested,’ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
- “A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.” ~ John Wright
- “My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: “Whatever you do in life, be a good one.”” ~ Donald Cerrone
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“I’ll drive like my grandma. I’ll drive like your grandma.” “You wouldn’t say that if you knew my gramma.” ~ Kami Garcia
- “My parents always talk about Puerto Rico. My dad’s whole family lives in Puerto Rico. My great-grandma lives in Puerto Rico and I got to meet her a couple years ago.” ~ Danny Garcia
- “Dating is so insecure. My last relationship, I was always there for her and she dumped me. I told her about it. I said, “Remember when your grandma died? I was there. Remember when you flunked out of school? I was there. Remember when you lost your job? I was there!” She said, “I know” ~ Tom Arnold
- “I’ll regularly just burst out into laughter at funerals, at the expense of the dead. What’s the difference between a dead person and Thom Yorke? One is talented and the other is dead. **** you grandma” ~ Thom Yorke
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“Grandma, how old is she?” “Oh, I don’t know,” Grandma said. “You’d have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.” ~ Richard Peck
- “Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realization that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a professional violin player and my parents first met when my dad was giving my mom guitar lessons.” ~ Eric Hutchinson
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“Grandma Redbird: Honey, you have to move past this. Zoey: How Grandma? Grandma Redbird: By living the life she’d be proud of you for living.” ~ P. C. Cast
- “We don’t LOVE our Grandmas because they look like supermodels. We love them because of WHO they are” ~ John Bytheway
- “Whoa!” she says as I plow into her. ” What are you DOING? Get off me!” I hang on tight. “Can’t a girl just hug her big sister?” She stops fighting me. “Are you dying? Am I dying? Did Grandma die? I laugh. “No one died.” “Then get off!” ~ Wendy Mass
