Worlds Best Grandparents

"Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother."
- Grandparents Day Quotes by Edward H. Dreschnack
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."
- Grandparents Day Quotes by Jane Howard
"No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet."
- Grandparents Day Quotes by Author Unknown
"You don't choose your family.  They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."
- Grandparents Day Quotes by Desmond Tutu
"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."
- Grandparents Day Quotes by Lois Wyse

Happy Grandparents Day: Poems

Proverbs

African

"If you know his father and grandfather, don't worry about his son."

"The motherless child will suckle the grandmother."

Chinese

"The old are the precious gem in the center of the household."

"To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root."

German

"Even the devil's grandmother was a nice girl when she was young."

Indian

"The baby is not yet born, and yet you say that his nose is like his grandfather's."

Irish

"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."

Happy Grandparents Day

Grandfathers are a special breed
Of kinfolk, all their own.
They love you and hug you,
And spoil you to death.
And then, they send you home.

© by Joyce C. Lock