These meaningful grandparents’ quotes and captions reflect the fact that they are some of the most important people in our lives.
Whether you call them Nana, Grammie, Papa, or Gramps, they all bring us joy. Show your grandparents your love with this collection of quotes and sayings.
Ten Best Grandparents Quotes
- Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels.
Lexie Saige - No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.
Unknown - Some of our greatest blessings call us grandma and grandpa.
Unknown - Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
Lois Wyse - Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do—grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
Alex Haley - Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.
Richard Garnett - You never know the love of a grandparent until you become one.
Unknown - A grandparent’s love knows no bounds. It does not recognize bedtimes or curfews and agrees dinner can be cookies and ice cream. It can provide unlimited cuddles and kisses. And always has time for just one more story.
Unknown - Being a grandparent means you can be as silly you want to be.
Unknown - Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.
Unknown
Grandparent Love
Kisses, cuddles, cookies, and treats, days spent with our grandparents are always so sweet.
Unknown
I don’t spoil my grandkids. I’m just very accommodating.
Unknown
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
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu
A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.
Charles and Ann Morse
The best place to be when you’re sad is your grandparent’s lap.
Unknown
A grandparent has silver in their hair and gold in their heart.
Unknown
You know you’re a grandparent when you laugh when your grandkids do the same things that made you so angry when your kids did them.
Unknown
Grandparents are a family’s greatest treasure, the founders of a loving legacy, The greatest storytellers, the keepers of traditions that linger on in cherished memory. Grandparents are the family’s strong foundation. Their extraordinary love sets them apart. Through happiness and sorrow, through their special love and caring, grandparents keep a family close at heart.
Unknown
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Nana and Papa
These meaningful grandparents’ quotes capture the importance of the relationship.
My grandparent may look old on the outside, but they are still young on the inside.
Unknown
I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I’ll be very happy.
Caroline Kennedy
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
It’s funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you’d do. It’s terrific.
Mike Krzyzewski
Grand-Angels
The best babysitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.
Dave Barry
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
Doug Larson
Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins.
Joyce Allston
A grandparent is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.
Unknown
I used to think I was too old to fall in love again. Then I became a grandparent.
Unknown
Grandchildren don’t need a lot of toys. The best thing a grandchild can have is a grandparent who gets down on the floor and plays with them.
Unknown
If you’re lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
Regina Brett
I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.
Susan Strasberg
Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories, and love.
Unknown
Some of the world’s best educators are grandparents.
Dr. Charlie W. Shedd
There is nothing more wonderful than the love and guidance a grandparent can give their grandchild.
Edward Fays
Grandma Sayings
- Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.
- There’s no place like home—except Grandma’s.
- If God had intended us to follow recipes, he wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.
Linda Henley - Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
- Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.
- It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother – that’s why the world calls her grandmother.
- A garden of love grows in a Grandmother’s heart.
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Grandmother Observations
A house needs a grandma in it.
Louisa May Alcott
Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day, and now the day was complete.
Macy DeMaree
Being an everyday grandmother has kept me young at heart. I know all the newest fads and fancies. I am way hipper than most of my friends.
Trudy Jo Hahn Snader
Parent-child relationships are complex. Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.
Janet Lanese
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
Grandpa Quotes
A grandfather makes us laugh, makes us feel safe, and always makes us feel loved.
Kate Summers
My grandfather was a wonderful role model. Through him, I got to know the gentle side of men.
Sarah Long
Our land is everything to us. I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it — with their lives.
John Wooden
His heritage to his children wasn’t words or possessions but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and father.
Will Rogers Jr.
A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.
Unknown
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
James Earl Jones
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.
Margaret Mead
One of the most powerful hand clasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.
Joy Hargrove
Papa Sayings
- Deep down, I always knew that you really care for me. Your harshness was fake. It was for me to make the most out of love. I truly love you, grandpa. You are and will remain the best in life. I love you so much!
- Your most loving grandchild
- Grandpas bring a little wisdom, happiness, warmth, and love to every life they touch.
- Grandpa has ears that truly listen, arms that always hold, love that’s never-ending, and a heart that’s made of gold.
- A grandfather is someone you can look up to no matter how tall you grow.
Grandma Captions for Instagram
These grandparents’ captions are just what the doctor ordered for your great photos.
Life is Grand!
Grammy is my name; spoiling is my game.
Being a grandparent is a license to be silly!
Could you teach Mom to cook like that?
Guardian Angel.
Being a grandma is my jam.
My favorite people call me Nana.
GiGi Life is the Best Life.
Grammy Knows Everything.
I’m that grandma.
Fairy Grandmother.
Grandmother Bear.
Too young to be a grandmother.
One Blessed Nana.
Gigi: Like a grandmother only way cooler.
GrandPa Captions
- Silver hair but a heart of gold.
- Grandparents: The Best Grown-ups.
- Don’t spoil my grandkids; that’s my job.
- 1.) Love them. 2.) Spoil them. 3.) Give them back.
- Granddad: Like a dad but without the rules.
- Best Grandfather by Par.
- Grumpa.
- Retired and under new management: my grandkids.
- The best parents get promoted to grandparents.
- Dads know a lot but Grandpas know everything.
- This is what an amazing grandpa looks like.
- That’s cute… now bring your grandpa a beer.
- Grandkids and grandparents get along so well because they have a common enemy.
- Funpa!
- Not sleeping… just resting my eyes.
- Happiness is being a grandpa.
- Off-Duty Grandparents.
- Gramps: The myth, the legend.
By MJ and Mike O’Halloran
MJ is a writer and photographer. Mike is the founder of Greeting Card Poet.
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