Quotes on Happy Grandparents Day

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

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

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.

Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.