Grandmother Quotes From Favorite Books About Grandmothering
I never read a grandparenting book without highlighter in hand. Here are some of the quotes by and about grandmothers that have been the target of my highlighter hand. Enjoy!
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- Bryna Nelson Paston, How to Be the Perfect Grandma
"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." - Adair Lara, The Granny Diaries
"My own mother didn't even try to keep up a decent show of interest in us, her actual children. I suspect she thought of us as the grandkids' drivers."
- Jill Milligan, Grandma Rules
"As a daughter, you think you know everything. As a mother you know you know everything. As a grandmother, you know they really don't know diddley." - Mary Pipher, Introduction to Eye of My Heart
"When I think of my sacred sites, the first two that come to mind are my grandmothers' kitchens." - Duncan MacCarthy Whitmire, "Grandma Cass," in From the Porch Swing
"To Grandma Cass, life was the sum of all the things that could have killed you, and didn't." - Hannah Yakin, "Stories I'd Rather Not Tell," in The Art of Grandparenting
"If there is a family secret, it may best be revealed through a story. If the story is Biblical, so much the better." - Elizabeth Berg, "How I Got to Be Queen of England," in Eye of My Heart
"Obviously there was something to this grandmother business. So far as I could tell, it was like being queen of England, minus the inconvenience of having to wear a crown." - Gloria Hunniford, Glorious Grandparenting
"What I and many grandparents have discovered is that when it comes to advice, less is more. The less you volunteer your opinions, the more you seem to be asked for them."
- Barbara Evers, "Unexpected," in Child of My Child
"All parents know that the love we experience prior to parenthood holds a small flame to the force and the power of the love that sweeps into your soul at the birth of your own child. Believe it or not, the birth of your grandchild carries a stronger, more potent love. This is the child of my child." - Lois Wyse, Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother
"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."
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