Grandparents Day is traditionally celebrated in September – it falls on the first Sunday after Labour Day.
The first state to proclaim Grandparents Day was West Virginia in 1973. This was thanks to the efforts of Marian McQuade who had been advocating for the elderly since 1970. It was in 1978 when President Jimmy Carter signed a federal proclamation declaring a specific day as National Grandparents Day. It is a day to celebrate the enduring legacy of grandparents who enrich our lives with their endless love and wisdom.
Grandparents Day Quotes
“One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.” – Joy Hargrove
“Young people need something stable to hang on to — a cultural connection, a sense of their past, a hope for their future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.” – Jay Kesler
“A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.” – Unknown
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu
“Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.” – Unknown
“My grandfather was a giant of a man … When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.” – Eth Clifford
“Grandparents are the best kind of grownups.” – Unknown
“Truth be told, being a grandma is as close as we ever get to perfection. The ultimate warm sticky bun with plump raisins and nuts. Clouds nine, ten, and eleven.” – Bryna Nelson Paston
“The old are the precious gem in the center of the household.” – Chinese Proverb
“Children brought up by their grandparents are generally spoiled.” – Spanish Proverb
“If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” – Italian proverb
“The smart, kind, beautiful child… must have got it from their grandparents.” – Unknown
“You are the sun, Grandma, you are the sun in my life.” – Kitty Tsui
“Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.” – Pam Brown
“What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.” – Rudolph Giuliani
“Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.” – Doug Larson
“Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.” – Marcy DeMaree
“Parents know a lot but grandparents know everything.” – Unknown
“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.” – Ogden Nash
“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.” – Victor Hugo
“You never know the love of a grandparent until you become one.” – Unknown
“Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.” — Rita Rudner
“Being a grandparent means you can be as silly as you want to be.” – Unknown
“Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels.” — Lexie Saige
“A grandparent has silver in their hair and gold in their heart.” – Unknown
“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
“Something magical happens when parents turn into grandparents” – Unknown
“A grandmother is a safe haven.” – Suzette Haden Elgin
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Grandparents make the world a little softer, a little kinder, and a little warmer.” – Unknown
“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.” – Marjory Barslow-Greenbie
“Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.” – Lois Wyse
“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
“Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent.” – Unknown
“Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.” – Paulette Bates Alden
“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
“A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.” – Erma Bombeck
“A grandparent is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.” – Unknown
“The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children’s children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future.” – Charles & Ann Morse
“As you are now, so once were we.” – James Joyce
“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.” – Jimmy Carter
“We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence. Grandmother was that person to me.” – Phyllis Theroux
“An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.” – Gene Perret
“I know you’ve loved me since I was born, but I’ve loved you my whole life.” – Unknown
“Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins.” – Joyce Allston
“Grandparents always have their door open when you are in need of a hug.” – Unknown
“Appreciate your grandparents while they are around. Listen to their stories, cherish their love and spend time with them. It is as good for you as it is for them.” – Unknown
“If Mom says no, ask Grandma. If Grandma says no… Who are we kidding? Grandma never says no.” – Unknown
“My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.” – Henry Youngman
“If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.” – Lois Wys
“If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.” – Linda Henley
“No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.” – Unknown
“Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.” – Gene Perri
“The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.” – Sam Levenson
“To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word ‘boo.” – Robert Brault
“Learn about history firsthand; ask your grandparents.” – Unknown
“They say genes skip generations. Maybe that’s why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.” – Joan McIntosh
“The sound of my grandkids laughing is my ffavouritesound in the world. The sound of them sleeping is a close second!” – Unknown
“Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old.” – Mary H. Waldrip
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