65 Grandmother Quotes and Sayings

Let these Grandmother quotes and sayings remind you of the role a Grandma plays in the lives of our children. Becoming a Grandmother is one of the joys of life. There is no other experience like it.

A Grandmother is one who loves us, encourages us, and gives us fond memories and is always there for us. She will listen, be non-judgment, and help us make life choices.

There are many different titles a woman can have but whether you call her Nana, Grammie, Grandma, or Granny she is a special person!

Grandmothers always have time to talk and make you feel special.
Catherine Pulsifer

1. Grandmothers always have time to talk and make you feel special. Catherine Pulsifer
  Time

1. I want to be the grandmother who plays inside and outside, experiencing joy with each grandchild, according to his or her personality and interests. Sharon Carpenter, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandparents
  Joy

Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
Alex Haley

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

1. But most important, young at heart – much younger in our lifestyles than most of our grandparents were at the same age. Georgia Witkin, The Modern Grandparent’s Handbook
  Inspirational Quotes

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. Lois Wyse

1. If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first. Lois Wyse
  Humor

1. One only has to look at the vast assortment of birthday and Mother’s Day greeting cards to appreciate the depth of love some hold for their grandmothers. Angela Bowen, Today’s Grandmother
  Love Quotes

1. A grandma is warm hugs and sweet memories. She remembers all of your accomplishments and forgets all of your mistakes. Barbara Cage
  Accomplishment

A grandmother once said that children are the investments and
grandchildren the dividends. Selma Berg

1. A grandmother once said that children are the investments and grandchildren the dividends. Selma Berg, You’ll Never Forget To Love Us!
  Cute Quotes

1. If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. Hannah Whithall Smith
  Choices

... one of the sweetest words I have ever heard is Nana. Zelda Rosenbaum

1. For myself, one of the sweetest words I have ever heard is “Nana”. Zelda Rosenbaum
  Appreciation Quotes, Sayings, and Messages

1. “Grandmother” opens up a new world of change, challenge, and celebration in a woman’s life. Rebecca Barlow Jordan, Day-votions for Grandmothers
  Quotes about Change

1. Being a grandmother is the best – it can’t be overrated. Marty Norman, Generation G
  Best Quotes

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

1. If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. Italian Proverb
  Famous Quotes

1. The advice from someone at the very end of their life is much different from someone in the middle David Romanelli, Life Lessons from the Oldest and Wisest
  Life Lessons

1. To all of the grandmothers who make the world more gentle, more tolerant and more safe for our children. Never doubt your importance. Mary-Lou Rosengren, The Grand Embrace
  Make A Difference

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

1. When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
  Judith Levy
  Quote of the Day

1. If you are lucky enough to have your grandmother with you, sit and talk with her sometime. Ask her big questions, like what’s the secret to a happy marriage, and little ones, like when was the first time she put on lipstick. Erin Bried, How to Sew a Button
  Question

1. As I gazed in awe at my newborn granddaughter, all I could think about was the wonder of Godï¿½s handiwork. Margaret Lang, Chicken Soup for the Grandma’s Soul
  Amazing

1. Many of my friends were grandmothers and, without exception, they said, “Until you become a grandmother, you can’t understand how it feels.” Barbara LoMonaco, Grandmothers: 101 Stories
  Feeling

Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice.

1. Grandmother – a wonderful mother with lots of practice. Author Unknown
  Positive

1. Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, ï¿½Smile, Grandma!ï¿½ I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmotherï¿½s lap.
  Liv Ullmann
  Smile

1. Our grandmother didn’t like the word retirement, she said life is for living not for retiring.
  Catherine Pulsifer
  Retirement

1. So what do I really know about being a grandmother? Well, I remember what I didn’t like as a child. I also loved being a Mom, but I have to tell you that being a grandmother has brought a whole new side of life – the fun side -to me.
  Janet Steele, Great Ideas For Grandparents
  Blessed

A house needs a grandma in it. Louisa May Alcott

1. A house needs a grandma in it. Louisa May Alcott
  Home

1. Most of us base our certainties about grandmotherhood on what our own grans were like or our own mums. So if we donï¿½t instantly feel we match up, itï¿½s probably because we have a certain blueprint in our minds. Flic Everett, Help! I’m a Granny
  Mindset

1. Yes, we are, gulp, older and, sadly, tire more easily, but being a grandmother today can be a sweet and wonderful experience, and many of us have the time and love to give. Angela Bowen, Today’s Grandmother
  Age

There are grandmothers out there who would move heaven and earth
for their grandchildren. Janice Elliott-Howard

1. There are grandmothers out there who would move heaven and earth for their grandchildren. Janice Elliott-Howard, Being A Grandmother
  Commitment

1. Being a mother and grandmother, my maternal instinct made me want to do for my associates what every mother wants to do for her children – what’s best for them. Mary Kay , The Mary Kay Way
  Mother

1. One friend came up with the name “Glam-ma”, short for Glamorous Grandmother. I loved it! Carol L. Covin, Who Gets to Name Grandma?
  Short Quotes

Truth be told, being a grandma is as close as we ever get to perfection.
Bryna Nelson Paston

1. Truth be told, being a grandma is as close as we ever get to perfection. Bryna Nelson Paston
  Funny Poems

1. Becoming a grandmother turns the page. Line by line you are rewritten. You are tilted off your old center, spun onto new turf. Thereï¿½s a faint scent of dï¿½jï¿½ vu from when you raised your own children, but this place feels freer. Lesley Stahl, Becoming GrandmaFreedom

1. On a deeper note, being a grandmother provides you with an opportunity to help your grandchild gain a sense of who he or she really is. Deborah Williams, Linda A. Johnson, How To Talk To Your Kids and Grandkids
  Inspiring Others

1. Parent-child relationships are complex. Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love. Janet Lanese, Grandmothers Are Like Snowflakes…No Two Are Alike
  Parents

1. Imagine my surprise when I, as a sixty-two-year-old personal trainer and avid cyclist who can ride a bike up the side of a mountain, discovered that I was out of shape when I became a grandmother. Valli Weiss, Are You Fit Enough to be a Grandmother?
  Health

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother. Prince William

1. As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother. Prince William
  Funny Quotes about Life

1. Being an everyday grandmother has kept me young at heart, I know all the newest fads and fancies. I am way hipper than most of my friends. Trudy Jo Hahn Snader, The Blessings of Being An Everyday Grandmother
  Friend

1. The coach, the counselor, the cuddler, the friend, the caregiver, the reconciler or the dazzler of sweet temptations are all natural and becoming roles that this grandmother plays with the skill of a master symphony director. Byron Pulsifer
  Coach

1. A grandmother is a remarkable woman. She’s a wonderful combination of warmth and kindness, laughter and love. She overlooks our faults, encourages our dreams, and praises our every success. Author Unknown
  Success

1. … to this day, I still continue the learning process to build upon the foundational lessons from my grandmother. I combine her teachings with the wisdom I glean from various sources… Martha Mutomba, Lessons From My Grandmother
  Learning

1. So long as they had access to their grandchildren, grandmothers wholeheartedly reported feelings of excitement and pleasure on the arrival of a newgrandchild. Doreen Rosenthal, New Age Nanas
  Experience

Every parent knows that children look at their grandparents as sources of wisdom and security. David Jeremiah

1. Every parent knows that children look at their grandparents as sources of wisdom and security. David Jeremiah
  Wise

1. …. I loved reading about the strength of grandmothers as well, because they’re the ones you turn to for all that unconditional love and acceptance when you need it. Amy Newmark, Chicken Soup for the Soul
  Book

1. Perfect love sometimes does not come till the first grandchild. Welsh Proverb
  Proverbs

My grandmother is my angel on earth. Catherine Pulsifer

1. My grandmother is my angel on earth. She is always looking out for me, she is always there for me, she loves and cares for me in a very special way. An angel describes her best! Catherine Pulsifer
  Angel

1. 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
  Family

1. A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween. Erma Bombeck
  Laughter

.... truly an inspiring and influential person in my life. Kate Summers

I looked up to Gramie, she always was there for me; no matter what challenge I was facing she shone her positive attitude on it. My Gramie was truly an inspiring and influential person in my life. Kate Summers
Positive Attitude

Grandmother Sayings

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

1. What happens at Nana’sï¿½ stays at Nana’s
  Funny Sayings

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

1. There’s no place like home except Grandma’s.
  Cute Life Quotes

1. A garden of love grows in a Grandmother’s heart.
  Cute Love Quotes

1. A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance.
  Mothers Day Poems

1. It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother – that’s why the world calls her grandmother.
  Greatness

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

1. Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while…..but our hearts forever.
  Great Quotes about Life

1. Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone.
  Baby

1. Everything my grandma does is something special made with love. She takes time to add the extra touch that says, “I love you very much”.
  I Love You

1. I believe that God sent us Grandparents as our legacy from above to share the moments of our life as extra measures of His love.
  God

Grandmothers and roses are much the same.
Each is a God's masterpiece with different names.

1. Grandmothers and roses are much the same. Each is a God’s masterpiece with different names.
  God’s Plan

1. A grandma is someone who plays a special part in all the treasured memories we hold within our heart.
  Memory

1. A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.
  Quotes that Make You Smile

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. Author Unknown

1. Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
  Funny Quotes

1. Grandparents and grandchildren, together they create a chain oflove linking the past, with the future. The chain may lengthen, but it will never part.
  Future

1. Grandmas don’t just say “that’s nice”, they reel back and roll their eyes and throw up their hands and smile. You get your money’s worth out of grandmas.
  Money

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.