quotes about Grandchildren
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I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
-- Aaron Taylor-JohnsonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.
-- Adora Svitak -
Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
-- Al Gore -
I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.
-- Alexander Lebed -
There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.
-- Alexander SmithSource : Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”
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I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
-- Andy Rooney -
Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m looking for a fat, cross-eyed hunchback,' he explains, stifling a giggle. 'A prosthetic hump would do.' His delight evaporates when asked about his three grandchildren. 'Am I a doting grandfather?' He pauses. 'I’m a … something grandfather, yes.' The fact that De Bono remains unperturbed by this lack betrays an emotionally austere childhood, and his passions for play, toys, and bad jokes tell of the same deprivation.Â
-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke -
I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed in my lifetime. I really think it’s coarsened. It’s coarsened in so many ways. One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. You can’t go to a movie — or watch a television show for that matter — without hearing the constant use of the F-word — including, you know, ladies using it. People that I know don’t talk like that!
-- Antonin Scalia -
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Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
-- Art Linkletter -
I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through
-- Art Modell -
I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
-- Arthur Hertzberg -
We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
-- Barbara Bush -
I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.
-- Ben VereenSource : "Ben Vereen: Usher’s Godfather Continues to Evolve". Interview with Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.
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A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.
-- Bill Cosby -
My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
-- Billy Crystal -
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So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive. Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping. When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!
-- Bob Brown -
I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.
-- Bob Newhart -
The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000 people by 2024. If it is shown to be highly profitable, perhaps we will see 20,000 people traveling to orbit by 2035, and then thousands to the moon by 2050. If we make a courageous decision, like the program we kicked off for Apollo, we will see our grandchildren in outposts on other planets.
-- Burt Rutan -
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
-- Carl Jung -
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WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE IT.
-- Chester BowlesSource : Chester Bowles (1954). “Ambassador's Report”, New York : Harper
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The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness?
-- Chief Dan George -
Ma, I'm just trying to get going on those grandchildren you want.
-- Christina DoddSource : Christina Dodd (2009). “Storm of Visions: The Chosen Ones”, p.189, Penguin
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I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.
-- Christine Feehan -
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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
-- Claudette Colbert -
In 50 years, your grandchildren will be asking you where you were when CM Punk beat the Undertaker's streak!
-- CM Punk -
Someday our grandchildren will very likely look back at the individual, selfish control of the wealth of the world by a small elite the same way we view slavery today.
-- Corinne McLaughlinSource : Corinne McLaughlin (2009). “Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out”, p.574, Ballantine Books
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In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.
-- Cristina Saralegui -
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
-- Dale Carnegie -
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
-- Dante Alighieri -
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
-- David Attenborough -
Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that sea-levels have risen at all. As so often in this domain, there is conflicting evidence. The melting of polar or sea ice has no direct effect.
-- Don Aitkin -
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I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
-- Dorothy MaloneSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
-- Doug Larson -
The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.
-- Doug Larson -
There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity.
-- Doug Larson -
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
-- Edie Brickell -
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.
-- Eduardo Galeano -
I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.
-- Ellen Barkin -
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Hillary Brown understands that?for our grandchildren's sake?we must rebuild America and, in doing so, re-imagine our interconnected infrastructure systems to make them more efficient, environmentally safe, and resilient in this age of global urbanization. This fascinating and important book should be required reading for our elected officials and policy-makers.
-- Felix Rohatyn -
When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.
-- Gary HaugenSource : Gary Haugen, Gregg Hunter (2010). “Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc
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The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
-- Gaylord Nelson -
Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth of Nations is still being read today. With the same perspicacity and with the same broad historical perspective, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson have retackled this same question for our own times. Two centuries from now our great-great- . . . -great grandchildren will be, similarly, reading Why Nations Fail.
-- George Akerlof -
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A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?
-- George Orwell -
Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.
-- Grandma Moses -
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
-- Harry S. Truman -
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I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?
-- Hillary Clinton -
My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
-- Ian Somerhalder -
My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.
-- Imelda Marcos -
It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
-- Isaac Asimov -
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
-- Isabel Allende -
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
-- J. Norman Collie -
Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.
-- Jacob M. AppelSource : "Reparations for Gay Americans". The Detroit Free Press, April 07, 2009.
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I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.
-- James Hansen -
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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
-- Jane SmileySource : Jane Smiley (1991). “Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas”
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I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.
-- Jared Taylor -
Obama called on Americans to have more grandchildren. Probably so there's more of them to pay off our debt.
-- Jay Leno -
The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.
-- Jenkin Lloyd JonesSource : Jenkin Lloyd Jones (1964). “The changing world: an editor's outlook”
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Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such.
-- Jeremy Bulloch -
A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.
-- Jeremy RifkinSource : Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.117, Palgrave Macmillan
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As much as the social conservatives might not like to hear it, there will be a time when your grandchildren say: 'What was the argument with gay marriage? Who cares?'
-- Jim Kolbe -
We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society that puts people before profits and looks after the environment.
-- Joan Coxsedge -
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Grandchildren can be annoying - how many times can you go: "And the cow goes moo and the pig goes oink"? It's like talking to a supermodel.
-- Joan Rivers -
My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.
-- Joanne Woodward -
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
-- Joseph Barber LightfootSource : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”
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Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again.
-- Joseph BruchacSource : Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.89, Penguin
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If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.
-- Julian Assange -
I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist.
-- Katie McGrath -
With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.
-- Kevin WhatelySource : "Kevin Whately On Life Without Morse". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2007.
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Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
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My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather.
-- Leonard Marx -
A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.
-- Lesslie Newbigin -
Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
-- Lois WyseSource : Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony
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If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
-- Lois Wyse -
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Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.
-- Lois Wyse -
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
-- Luther Burbank -
I don't put off any time with my grandchildren. I don't put off a thing.
-- Lynn Redgrave -
Say yes, Jenny. Promise you'll marry me. Promise you'll still be here, driving me crazy and loving me when we're little and old and surrounded by grandchildren. Promise that you'll let me love you until I take my last breath. Promise.
-- Maggie Osborne -
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
-- Margaret MeadSource : Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”
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You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship - for your grandchildren, for example - or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise.
-- Mark Skousen -
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
-- Martin Luther -
Thierry Henry my grandchildren, hopefully my great grandchildren gonna have to hear about him because is super, absolutely super, top guy, top player
-- Martin Tyler -
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As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.
-- Mary Margaret McBride -
There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.
-- Mary Margaret McBride -
I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.
-- Maureen Forrester -
Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.
-- Michael Caine -
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I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.
-- Michael Fish -
By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
-- Michael MorpurgoSource : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.
-- Mike Myers -
Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born with. So I wonder where Their affirmations of Spirit will lead. My wish for them is that their unfolding proceeds to fullness of Spirit, however astonishing or anguished their lives.
-- Minor White -
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I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.
-- Mort Kondracke -
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
-- Mother Teresa -
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
-- Muhammad YunusSource : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Interview, March 25, 1997.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -