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A grandmother is a safe haven. - Suzette Haden Elgin

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

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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God. - Jonathan Safran Foer

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When it seems the world can’t understand, your grandmother’s there to hold your hand. - Joyce K. Allen Logan

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If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers. - Linda Henley

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Some moments can only be cured with a big squishy grandma hug. - Dan Pearce

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Grandma has ears that truly listen, arms that always hold, love that’s never ending, and a heart that is made of gold. - Unknown

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

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Grandchildren never outgrow grandma’s arms. - Unknown

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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. - Unknown

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

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

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A zest for life is one of the most important examples a grandmother can pass on to her grandchildren. - Unknown

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My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once. - Richard Lewis

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A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. - Unknown

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Grandmothers make the world… a little softer, a little kinder, a little warmer. - Unknown

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A garden of love grows in a grandmother’s heart. - Unknown

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A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac. - Laura Miller

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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. - V.S. Naipaul

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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. - Unknown

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Grandma serves kisses, counsel, and cookies daily. - Unknown

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There’s no place like home… except Grandma’s. - Unknown

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Grandmothers are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories, and love. - Unknown

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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

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My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. - Henry Youngman

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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother. - Victor Hugo

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No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandmother pulling a baby picture out of a wallet. - Unknown

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A house needs a grandma in it. - Louisa May Alcott

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Being a grandmother is our last chance to act like a kid without being accused of being in our second childhood. - Unknown

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Grandmothers are just antique little girls. - Unknown

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Grandmothers are the closest thing to living angels. - Unknown

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It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. - Christopher Morley

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

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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 Theroux

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Between the earth and sky above, nothing can match a grandmother’s love. - Unknown

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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

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Grandmothers hold our tiny hands for just a while, but our hearts forever. - Unknown

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Grandmothers are voices of the past and role models of the present. Grandmothers open the doors to the future. - Helen Ketchum

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Grandmother — a wonderful mother with lots of practice. - Unknown

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TGIF: This Grandma Is Fabulous! - Unknown

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Truth be told, being a grandma is as close we ever get to perfection. The ultimate warm sticky bun with plump raisins and nuts. Clouds nine, ten, and eleven. - Bryna Nelson Paston

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The next best thing to having you for a mom is knowing my children will have you for a grandma. - Unknown

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A grandma’s heart is a patchwork of love. - Unknown

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You are the sun, grandma, you are the sun in my life. - Kitty Tsui

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Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. - Pam Brown

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I used to think I was too old to fall in love again. Then I became a grandma. - Unknown

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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

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Grandma’s kitchen…kids eat free. - Unknown

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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

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A grandmother’s love knows no distance. - Unknown

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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 Whithall Smith

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My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, ‘Gramma, do you know how you and God are alike?’ I mentally polished my halo while I asked, ‘No, how are we alike?’ ‘You’re both old,’ he replied. - Unknown

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Grandmas give you the cherry off the top. - Unknown

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

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

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It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother — that’s why the world calls her grandmother. - Unknown

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Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. - Paulette Bates Alden

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Mommy knows a lot but grandma knows everything. - Unknown