Each year, on the Sunday following Labor Day, National Grandparents Day celebrates the special bond we share with older generations.

The day was officially recognized on Aug. 3, 1978, when President Jimmy Carter signed the National Grandparents Day proclamation to honor grandparents and the wisdom they can share with young people.

"The elders of each family have the responsibility for setting the moral tone for the family and for passing on the traditional values of our Nation to their children and grandchildren," the resolution stated.

"They bore the hardships and made the sacrifices that produced much of the progress and comfort we enjoy today. It is appropriate, therefore, that as individuals and as a nation, that we salute our grandparents for their contribution to our lives."

To show some appreciation to grandmothers and grandfathers on National Grandparents Day, consider sharing these quotes compiled from A-Z Quote and Parade.

1. "Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being." — Margaret Mead

2. "Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child's growth as vitamins." — Joyce Allston

3. "Grandparents can be very special resources. Just being close to them reassures a child, without words, about change and continuity, about what went before and what will come after." — Fred Rogers

4. "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

5. "Becoming a grandparent is a second chance. For you have a chance to put to use all the things you learned the first time around and may have made mistakes on. It's all love and no discipline. There's no thorn in the rose." — Joyce Brothers

6. "To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid." — Robert Breault

7. "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." — President Jimmy Carter

8. "Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children." — Alex Haley

9. "A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his grandfather." — Angie Papadakis

10. "Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them." — Jay Kesler

11. "Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild and or a grandparent." — Donald A. Norber

12. "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

13. "There is nothing more wonderful than the love and guidance a grandparent can give his or her grandchild." — Edward Fays

14. "The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent." — Sam Levenson

15. "To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word 'boo.'" — Nicholas Brault

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National Grandparents Day is held on the first Sunday after Labor Day of every year. Reuters
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