51 First Time Grandparents Quotes

Author Suzette Haden Elgin once said, “A grandmother is a safe haven.” Let’s take a look at some of the best first-time grandparents quotes below.

New Grandparents Quotes

• Now you can give your grandchild candy and toys that make a lot of noise. It’s payback time!
• Enjoy your new bundle of joy!
• You will be great grandparents.
• I know you’ll spend all your time spoiling your grandchildren.
• Every step of your life has been leading up to your most important role: being a grandparent.
• I’m wishing your new addition to the family much love and joy.
• You have a brand new bundle of joy in your life.
• May your new grandchild give you hugs, smiles, and love.
• Grandchildren are a blessing to grandparents just as grandparents are a blessing to grandchildren.
• Grandparents are just parents with more experience.
• Every moment with your grandchildren is a blessing.
• No one will spoil you like grandma!
• Grandparents are quite prone to being wrapped around tiny fingers.
• Grandmothers are the best types of mothers.
• Grandchildren are made to be spoiled by grandparents.
• Grandchildren are the reward for those who have labored as parents.

Famous First Time Grandparents Quotes

• “When it seems the world can’t understand, your grandmother’s there to hold your hand.” – Joyce K. Allen Logan
• “I don’t intentionally spoil my grandkids. It’s just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.” – Gene Perret
• “They say genes skip generations. Maybe that’s why grandparents find their grandchildren so likable.” – Joan McIntosh
• “Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins.” – Joyce Allston
• “No spring, nor summer hath such grace. As I have seen in one autumnal face.” – John Donne
• “Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.” – Doug Larson
• “To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• “Every house needs a grandmother in it.” – Louisa May Alcott
• “Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels.” – Lexie Saige
• “Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.” – Art Linkletter
• “A man’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.” – Pam Brown
• “It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.” – Christopher Morley
• “The only reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy.” – Sam Levenson
• “You are the sun, Grandma, you are the sun in my life.” – Kitty Tsui
• “The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.” – Sam Levenson
• “Never have children, only grandchildren.” – Gore Vidal                        
• “Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.” – Lois Wyse
• “Elephants and grandchildren never forget.” – Andy Rooney                
• “My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.” – Henry Youngman
• “A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his grandfather.” – Angie Papadakis
• “Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.” – Paulette Bates Alden
• “Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild and/or a grandparent.” – Donald Norber
• “I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it, I’d find the same set of grandkids.” – Robert Brault
• “Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.” – Rita Rudner
• “If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.” – Lois Wyse
• “My grandfather was a wonderful role model. Through him I got to know the gentle side of men.” – Sarah Long
• “Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.” – Allan Frome
• “A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.” – Emma Bombeck
• “Grandparents are, without a doubt, some of the world’s best educators.” – Charles W. Shedd
• “Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.” – Richard Garnett
• “For grandparents, a baby represents them, their hopes and their desire for the future.” – Apollo
• “It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother – that’s why the world calls her grandmother.” – Unknown
• “If God had intended us to follow recipes, he wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.” – Linda Henley

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