Grandmother Quotes Page 3

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

Nothing in this world can prepare us for this moment, and nothing can compare as this child of our child steals our breath and our hearts. Then we watch as the baby’s great-grandmother – our mother – embraces this miracle, bearing witness to this ageless mystery of maternal love. Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Grandma’s Soul
Miracle

Show them what you’re passionate about. But don’t expect them to share your exact love.By showing them what you love, you’re inspiring them to be passionate in their own right. Perhaps this is the true meaning of being a grandmother. Deborah Williams, How To Talk To Your Kids & Grandkids
Inspirational

To hear your grandchild’s for the first time call you Nana or Grandma or whatever name they call you, truly melts your heart. Catherine Pulsifer
Listening

Things can get overwhelming with children, and sometimes one of the best ways you can be a great grandmother is to help out.” Deborah Williams, Linda A. Johnson, How To Talk To Your Kids and Grandkids
Children

My grandmother worked at organizing the most basic aspects of her life and let the rest happen. That was the secret to her peace of mind. Gloria Barry, Things My Grandmother Taught Me About Organized Living
Peace

As a grandparent, I have the honor of assuring my grandchildren of my unconditional love and acceptance. Passing a blessing to my grandchild can be as simple as sharing tender words that encourage and affirm. Kay Swatkowski, A Grandmother’s Prayers
Encouragement

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
Luck

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. Phyllis Theroux
Blessed

The purpose of discipline is self-discipline, and its best source is the full-time hovering presence of a grandmother. Grandmothers don’t spoil children; tired parents do. Florence King
Time

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

A grandma’s name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. William Shakespeare
Trust

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. When a man’s mother holds his child in her gladden arms he is aware of the roundness of life’s cycle; of the mystic harmony of life’s ways. Christopher Morley
Life

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
Angel

Grandmothers are just “antique” little girls. Author Unknown
Funny

In some Native American societies, tribal leaders consulted a council of grandmothers before making any major decisions that would affect the whole community. Carol Schaefer, Grandmothers Counsel the World
Decision

Why had my grandfather gone to so much trouble to have my grandmother’s letters bound into a book so carefully and lovingly? Since no one ever spoke about my grandmother around me, it had not occurred to me that my grandfather truly cared for her. I held in my lap the history of their love affair, something I had not acknowledged before. Mary Ames Mitchell, The Search for My Abandoned Grandmother
Grandfather

As one of the city grandchildren, I enjoyed the exuberant space she created for us all. ‘Granny’s Sunday Sanctuary’ was a haven for the homesick, a family fortress, a place where you felt free to join in whatever was happening or retreat to read on the back veranda. Brenda Niall, Can You Hear the Sea?
Family

Lynne Sharon Schwartz probes the nature of the love that grandmothers feel toward their grandchildren and concludes, “There’s something suspiciously viral about the condition: relentless, forceful, and all-consuming.” Barbara Graham, Eye of My Heart
Love

I want to express my endless love and gratitude to my children … and my precious grandchildren … Thank you for loving and believing in me, and for making me the proudest mother and grandmother on earth. You are my reason for living, and my greatest accomplishment. I love you with everything that I am. Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given
I Love You

My own illiterate grandmother was an inspiration for me. She was widowed very young with five small children and came here from another country. She was fabulous and became a business woman, raised her children, and was happy because she was full of love. What a lady!! Lynn Hubschman Woozie (Aka Grandmother) Wisdom
Amazing

In today’s world of complex family life, the place of grandmothers has shifted. Still the one who can give care and love unconditionally, they have to negotiate new relationships with their now grown-up children, carefully treading the line between offering help and interfering, being useful yet not exploited, dealing with children who become adolescents in a new digital age. Dr Donald E Edgar
Relationship

We have the wonderful opportunity to show God’s love to our grandchildren by talking with them, spending time with them, praying for them, and sharing God’s Word with them. Nurturing our grandchildren in a variety of ways is both a blessing and a calling from God. Doris Rikkers, The Inspiring Grandmother
God

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