Grandchildren Quotes:

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

- Aaron Taylor-Johnson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dad, Grandchildren, Want, Mum And Dad

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

topic: Opportunity, Grandchildren, Giving

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

topic: Grandchildren, Media, Waiting, Current Events

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

- Adriana Trigiani

topic: Art, Grandchildren, Treasure

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

topic: Memories, Lying, Grandchildren, Special Occasion, Diaspora

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

- Al Gore

topic: Grandchildren, Civilization, Way

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

- Alexander Lebed

topic: Grandchildren, Men, Different

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 Smith

source: Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

topic: Grandchildren, Fire, Perfection, Promenade

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Elephants, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

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

topic: Grandchildren, Fists, Littles

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

- Art Linkletter

topic: Patriotic, Grandchildren, Names, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through

- Art Modell

topic: Grandchildren, Want, My Grandchildren

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

topic: Writing, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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

topic: Grandchildren, Hands, Suffering, Hands Together

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

- Barbara Bush

topic: Children, Husband, Grandchildren

I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.

- Ben Vereen

source: "Ben Vereen: Usher’s Godfather Continues to Evolve". Interview with Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

topic: Grandchildren, Grandpa, My Grandchildren

A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Children, Grandchildren, Rewards

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

topic: Fun, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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

topic: Eye, Heart, Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren

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

topic: Marriage, Kids, Grandchildren, My Grandchildren

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

topic: Future, Grandchildren, Moon, Profitable, Courageous Decisions

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

- Carl Jung

topic: Humor, Fate, Grandchildren, Unconscious Mind, Conscious And Unconscious

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 Bowles

source: Chester Bowles (1954). “Ambassador's Report”, New York : Harper

topic: Grandchildren, Temper

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

topic: Native American, Heart, Grandchildren, American Indian, Great Spirit

Ma, I'm just trying to get going on those grandchildren you want.

- Christina Dodd

source: Christina Dodd (2009). “Storm of Visions: The Chosen Ones”, p.189, Penguin

topic: Grandchildren, Trying, Want

I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.

- Christine Feehan

topic: Dog, Grandchildren, Beloved

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

- Claudette Colbert

topic: Mother, Grandchildren, Grandparent, Grandkids, Parents And Grandparents

In 50 years, your grandchildren will be asking you where you were when CM Punk beat the Undertaker's streak!

- CM Punk

topic: Grandchildren, Years, Cm Punk, Undertaker

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 McLaughlin

source: Corinne McLaughlin (2009). “Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out”, p.574, Ballantine Books

topic: Selfish, Grandchildren, Views, Slavery Today

In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.

- Cristina Saralegui

topic: Dog, Kids, Grandchildren

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Sweet, Grandchildren, Literature, Influencing People, Win Friends And Influence People

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

topic: Art, Grandchildren, Able, Nature And Art

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

topic: Book, Grandchildren, Elephants, Picture Books

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

topic: Grandchildren, Ice, Sea, Direct Effect

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

- Dorothy Malone

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Horse, Grandchildren, Cotton

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

- Doug Larson

topic: Fighting, Grandchildren, Grandparent, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

- Doug Larson

topic: Grandchildren, Views, Ideas, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity.

- Doug Larson

topic: Faith, Grandchildren, Humanity, Faith In Humanity

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

- E. Stanley Jones

topic: Grandchildren

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

topic: Grandchildren, Recipes, Dressings

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

topic: Soccer, Sleep, Grandchildren

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

topic: Husband, Teenager, Grandchildren, Stepchild

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

topic: Book, Reading, Grandchildren, Urbanization, Elected Officials

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 Haugen

source: 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

topic: Grandchildren, Compassion, Leader

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

topic: Sacrifice, Men, Grandchildren, Inspirational Environmental, Environmentalist

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

topic: Book, Reading, Grandchildren, Historical Perspective

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

topic: Regret, Grandchildren, Tree, Walnuts, Old Trees

I have two grandchildren.

- Gloria Allred

topic: Grandchildren, Two

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

- Grandma Moses

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Thinking

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

topic: Grandchildren, Past, Years

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

topic: New Relationship, New Beginnings, Grandchildren, Hairstyles

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

- Ian Somerhalder

topic: Grandchildren, Way, Louisiana

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

topic: Growing Up, Grandchildren, People, Filipino

It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Thinking, Animal, Grandchildren

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

topic: Grandchildren, World, This World, Great Grandchildren

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

- J. Norman Collie

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Men, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

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. Appel

source: "Reparations for Gay Americans". The Detroit Free Press, April 07, 2009.

topic: Sex, Grandchildren, Years

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

topic: Grandchildren, Grandpa, Grandfather

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

- Jane Smiley

source: Jane Smiley (1991). “Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas”

topic: Son, Grandchildren, Like You, Children And Grandchildren, Grandchildren And Grandparents

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

topic: Grandchildren, Men, Grandparent, Sadat

Obama called on Americans to have more grandchildren. Probably so there's more of them to pay off our debt.

- Jay Leno

topic: Grandchildren, Debt, Pay

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 Jones

source: Jenkin Lloyd Jones (1964). “The changing world: an editor's outlook”

topic: Girl, Kids, Grandchildren

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

topic: Home, Grandchildren, July

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 Rifkin

source: Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.117, Palgrave Macmillan

topic: Loss, Grandchildren, Ideas, Material Wealth, Human Values

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

topic: Gay, Grandchildren, Care

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

topic: Women, Grandchildren, People

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

topic: Grandchildren, Pigs, Talking

My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.

- Joanne Woodward

topic: Children, Planets, Grandchildren

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

source: Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Grandchildren

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 Bruchac

source: Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.89, Penguin

topic: War, Thinking, Grandchildren

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

topic: Adventure, Eye, Grandchildren

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

topic: Grandchildren, One Day, Toys, Morgana, My Grandchildren

With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.

- Kevin Whately

source: "Kevin Whately On Life Without Morse". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2007.

topic: Children, Grandchildren, My Grandchildren, Children And Grandchildren, Grandchildren And Grandparents

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: War, Grandchildren, Merchandising, Political Speeches

My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather.

- Leonard Marx

topic: Grandchildren, Grandfather, Great Grandfather

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

topic: Believe, Future, Grandchildren, Western Society

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

- Lois Wyse

source: Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Glowing, Grandson, My Grandfather

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

- Lois Wyse

topic: Grandchildren, Grandparent, Would Be, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

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

topic: Grandchildren, Grandparent, Childhood, Parents And Grandparents, Best Grandparents

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

topic: Grandchildren, Blessing, Intelligent, Crossings, Great Outdoors

I don't put off any time with my grandchildren. I don't put off a thing.

- Lynn Redgrave

topic: Grandchildren, My Grandchildren

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

topic: Love, Crazy, Grandchildren, Let Me Love You, Jenny

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

topic: Grandchildren, Order, Grandparent, Mother Grandmother, Mothers Day Grandma

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

topic: Party, Grandchildren, Government

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

topic: Heart, Grandchildren, Heard, Praying To God, True Faith

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

topic: Player, Grandchildren, Guy, Great Grandchildren

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

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

- Mary Margaret McBride

topic: Kids, Grandchildren, Grandparent

I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.

- Maureen Forrester

topic: Grandchildren, Three

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

topic: Couple, Grandchildren, Years

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

- Michael Fish

topic: Grandchildren, Tree, Plant, Fish Tanks

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 Morpurgo

source: "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

topic: Friendship, Grandchildren, Talking, Blank Pages

I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.

- Mike Myers

topic: Kids, Thinking, Grandchildren

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

topic: Photography, Grandchildren, Wish

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

topic: Grandchildren, Rights, People, Fair Trade, Pursuit Of Wealth

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Love, Grandchildren, Rich, Hungry Eyes, Hungry For Love

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

- Muhammad Yunus

source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation Interview, March 25, 1997.

topic: Grandchildren, Museums, One Day

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

topic: Grandchildren, Grandparent, Debt, My Grandchildren, Children And Grandchildren

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

- Nicki Minaj

topic: Grandchildren, College, Thinking, World Domination

I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

- Nikita Khrushchev

source: Speech to Western diplomats, Moscow, 18 Nov. 1956.

topic: Grandchildren, America, Giving

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

- Nikolay Chernyshevsky

topic: Hurt, Grandchildren, Hands, Previous Generations

[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.

- Nina Totenberg

source: "Inside Washington", PBS, July 8, 1995.

topic: Thinking, Grandchildren, Justice, Retributive Justice

The good Lord gave me eight grandchildren, and I am convinced that through schools like Desert Christian that we are going to overwhelm the adversaries, not just with bombs and bullets, but with the demonstration of Christian principles.

- Oliver North

topic: Christian, School, Grandchildren

I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

- Omar Sharif

topic: Son, Grandchildren, Ideas, My Grandchildren

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

- Paul D. Boyer

topic: Cancer, Grandchildren, Agony, Great Grandchildren, Basic Research

When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart.

- Paul Harding

source: Paul Harding (2011). “Tinkers”, p.34, Random House

topic: Heart, Grandchildren, Littles

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

- Paul MacCready

source: "Paul MacCready Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.

topic: Grandchildren, Gasoline, Fetch, Save The Environment, Gallons

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

- Penelope Keith

topic: Nature, Grandchildren, Tree, Loathe, Plants And Trees

A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren.

- Phil Moss

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Too Much

If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done.

- Prince Charles

topic: Thinking, Grandchildren, Worry

We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren

- Prince Charles

topic: Future, Grandchildren, Hands

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

- Ray Manzarek

topic: Inspirational, Life, Grandchildren, Trombone, Plant A Tree

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

- Reba McEntire

topic: Grandchildren, Winning, Awards, Selling More, Winning Awards

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

- Rembrandt

source: "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

topic: Art, Grandchildren, Painting, Painting And Art, Painting Art

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

- Richard Lugar

source: "What I've Learned: Senator Dick Lugar (R, Ind.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 21, 2010.

topic: Eye, Grandchildren, Imagination

Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful - namely, if we can work together, we can make ourselves into whatever we are clever and courageous enough to imagine ourselves becoming. This is to set aside Kant's question "What is man?" and to substitute the question "What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

- Richard Rorty

source: Richard Rorty (1998). “Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

topic: Clever, Philosophical, Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

- Richard Rorty

topic: Grandchildren, World, Great Grandchildren

We are the ancestors of our grandchildren's children. We look after them, just as our ancestors look after us. We aren't here for ourselves. We are here for each other and for the children of our grandchildren.

- Roy Sesana

topic: Children, Grandchildren, Looks

I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone

- Sean Penn

source: Sean Penn's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2009.

topic: Eye, Gay, Grandchildren, Against Gay Marriage

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

- Sparky Anderson

topic: Baseball, Grandchildren, Grandparent, Amnesia

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

- T. Berry Brazelton

topic: Children, Grandchildren, Miracle

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Peace, Thinking, Grandchildren, Generation Gap

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

- Tallulah Bankhead

topic: Education, Grandchildren, Dice, Liberal Education

For a small investment today we could be creating something that our grandchildren will thank us for

- Tim Smit

topic: Grandchildren, Creating, Today, Thank U

On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night."

- Vivien Leigh

topic: Night, Grandchildren, Atlanta

I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.

- Wilford Brimley

topic: Son, Grandchildren, Three, Widowers, Three Sons

Jeb Bush welcomed his fourth grandchild. The new Bush grandchild is happy, healthy, and will be running for president in 2048.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Running, Grandchildren, Healthy

I've never thought that I would see any man of color, not just a black president, but any man of color, I never thought that I would live to see that. I thought maybe my grandchildren would, but I never thought I would. So when Barack Obama first started to run I was like, "I've never heard of this guy - he probably doesn't have a shot." But then he started picking up steam and that piqued my interest.

- Donte Stallworth

topic: Running, Grandchildren, Men

If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?

- Enele Sopoaga

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Moving, Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandmother And Grandchildren, Higher Ground

If you're outside the path of totality eclipse, if there's any way you can get into the path of totality for the eclipse, do it. Take the day off. Take the kids out of school. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for most people to see a total eclipse, and it is one of the grandest sights in all of nature. It's something you'll always remember, and you'll pass stories of it onto your grandchildren.

- Fred Espenak

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: School, Kids, Grandchildren

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

- Gene Perret

topic: Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

- Gene Perret

source: Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.

- Gene Perret

source: Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Naps, My Grandchildren, Children And Grandchildren

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

- Gene Perret

source: Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Self, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

- Gene Perret

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

- Gene Perret

source: Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

topic: Grandchildren, Grandparent, People, Grandson, My Grandchildren

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

- Gene Perret

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent, My Grandfather, Mother And Grandmother

I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.

- Gene Perret

source: Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

topic: Nice, Grandmother, Grandchildren, Nice Things, Parents And Grandparents

One of the three big factors that count against war in the relationship between China and the U.S. are, first, nuclear weapons and even a condition of mutual assured destruction. Secondly, one's got two economies that have become so deeply interlaced that a war between the U.S. and China would leave Wal-Marts empty and Chinese factories producing for nothing. Thirdly, climate - if between the two of us, we keep doing what we're doing, we can create a climate in which our grandchildren won't be able to live.

- Graham T. Allison

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: War, Grandchildren, Chinese

In every moment of every day of my life, I get to wake up and work with amazing people and nurture them in the way that I might have nurtured my son or my grandchildren that he might have had.

- Kathy Eldon

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Son, Grandchildren, People

People ask me almost every day, "Why? You are successful, you have kids, you have grandchildren, so why?" Feminist women are seen as unsatisfied. But all women in the world, if they are well aware of inequality, are unsatisfied women. They don't have the same rights as men, and there is no freedom until there is equality between men and women.

- Maria Teresa Horta

topic: Kids, Successful, Grandchildren

I'm frustrated with the fact that it's harder to remember things now because I can so easily find them on the Web. I hate the way I have to work at reading; a pastime that once brought nothing but relaxation and joy. I hate the Internet's addictive qualities, as I watch my own grandchildren - whose brains are still being developed - want to be on devices so much. I hate what technology bodes for our culture, but even more for the body of Christ.

- Tricia Rhodes

topic: Hate, Reading, Grandchildren

I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500 or 1,000 years ago. The buildings of those days were miracles. We don't perform such miracles today. So we should be a little more modest. For my part, I'll be glad to show one of my buildings one day to my grandchildren and say: I'm proud of that.

- Zhang Xin

topic: Grandchildren, Impact, Years

You can plant a dream.

- Anne Campbell

topic: Dream, Grandchildren, Plant

It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

- David Rees

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Grandchildren, Would Be, Yeah

The truth is that climate alarmism has become the most expensive, and the most wasteful, project in the history of the world. It is junk economics built on junk science. It amounts to no more than hot air, yet it looks set to beggar our grandchildren.

- Roger Helmer

topic: Grandchildren, Air, Climate, Hot Air

I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have been fortunate enough to see multiple generations of families come see my shows.

- Sam Bush

source: Source: www.cincygroove.com

topic: Grandchildren, Grandparent, Age

So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

- Sharron Angle

source: "Angle to Hispanic children: “Some of you look a little more Asian to me”". lasvegassun.com. October 18, 2010.

topic: Country, Teenager, Grandchildren, Nevada

I'm still learning....learning from my great grandchildren and everyone around me. I would advise others to keep trying, stop and listen.

- Leah Chase

source: Source: lasentinel.net

topic: Grandchildren, Trying, Great Grandchildren

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

- Aasif Mandvi

source: "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

topic: Grandchildren, Thinking, Interesting, Very Interesting

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Grandchildren, May, Painting

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

- Charles Frazier

source: Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.412, Random House

topic: Grandchildren, Men, Passing On, Rift

It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.

- Stephen Colbert

source: Stephen Colbert's monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner, www.dailykos.com. April 30, 2006.

topic: Grandchildren, Ideas, Boxing, Glaciers

When I'm laid in my coffin, I want you to put a picture of my grandchild to the right of me and and a picture of my daughter to my left. That way they will be buried with me.

- Jeanne Calment

topic: Daughter, Grandchildren, Coffins, My Grandchildren

I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.

- Louis Farrakhan

source: "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

topic: Grandchildren, Night, Illinois, Great Grandchildren, Black Males

At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Grandchildren, Years, Prunes

There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal; we need to transfer industrial processes into space so that the earth may remain a green and pleasant place for our grandchildren to live in. The second . . . to escape material impoverishment: the resources of this planet are finite, and we shall not forego forever the abundance of solar energy and minerals and living space that are spread out all around us. The third . . . our spiritual need for an open frontier.

- Freeman Dyson

topic: Spiritual, Moon, Grandchildren, Solar Energy, Garbage Disposal

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Grandchildren, Often Can, Awkward

There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

source: Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.459, Best Books on

topic: Future, Grandchildren, Order, Frills, Beautification

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

- Sylvia Earle

topic: Kids, Grandchildren, Laughing

During a charity boxing match on Friday, Mitt Romney lasted two rounds against Evander Holyfield and raised a million dollars. It was just like Holyfield's fight with Mike Tyson, except Romney chewed off his other ear talking about his 18 grandchildren.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Friday, Fighting, Grandchildren, Boxing Matches

I still take the pill. I don't want any more grandchildren.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Grandchildren, Pills, Birth Control

I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

- Phyllis Schlafly

source: Source: rutherford.org

topic: Beautiful, Lonely, Grandchildren

There are many choices out there for young women. And you have to ask yourself whether you want to model your life on the women who let life pass them by and who spend their lives thinking they were victims and that men are the enemy. Or do you want to have a happy life with a successful marriage and 14 lovely grandchildren. The choices are out there.

- Phyllis Schlafly

source: Source: rutherford.org

topic: Successful, Happy Life, Grandchildren, Successful Marriage

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). “Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years”

topic: Grandchildren, Slave Owners, Facts

Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle

- Tamora Pierce

source: Tamora Pierce (2003). “The Realms of the Gods”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

topic: War, Grandchildren, Thinking

[When told that her grandchild had her nose:] I didn't get this nose until I was thirty-four.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Grandchildren, Noses, Four

Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Christian, Grandchildren, Doe, Christian Family

Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.

- Ted Turner

topic: Grandchildren, Impact, Today

Shame on us if 100 years from now our grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by Global Warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?'

- Joe Lieberman

topic: Grandchildren, Years, Saws, Those Who Came Before Us

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

- Terry Pratchett

source: "Discworld's Terry Pratchett On Death And Deciding". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 11, 2011.

topic: Goodbye, Grandchildren, Thinking, Sobbing

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

topic: Grandchildren, Past, Grandparent

So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

- Margaret Mitchell

source: Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books

topic: Grandchildren, Waiting, Approval

I'll have that inscribed on my damn grave. I still get stopped for being Lois Lane, and I'm 60 and have two grandchildren. So it's kind of weird.

- Margot Kidder

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Grandchildren, Kind

Even if my grandchildren don’t remember the fact that I scored 10,000 runs in Test and ODI cricket, I am confident that they will remember that Sachin Tendulkar used to be my team-mate.

- Rahul Dravid

topic: Running, Team, Grandchildren

I'm not currently into economic textbooks, but my grandchildren tell me that the book by Gregory Mankiw, former head of the white house council of economic advisers is a model of intelligence and clarity. Why not try that one.

- John C. Bogle

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Book, Grandchildren, House

I'll build mine tomorrow," Horace said through a mouthful of food. "This is excellent, Will! When I have grandchildren, I'll name them all after you!

- John Flanagan

topic: Grandchildren, Names, Tomorrow

Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

- Tim Berners-Lee

topic: Jobs, Grandchildren, Grandparent

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Source: www.raybradbury.com

topic: Daughter, Grandchildren, Eight, Soul Life, Our Daughter

How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.

- David Attenborough

topic: Eye, Grandchildren, Looks

[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather ... What people (must) do is to change their behavior and their attitudes ... If we do care about our grandchildren then we have to do something, and we have to demand that our governments do something.

- David Attenborough

topic: Attitude, Ocean, Grandchildren, Oscillation, Carbon Dioxide

If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.

- David Attenborough

source: "David Attenborough: 'I'm an essential evil'". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

topic: Grandchildren, Thinking, Looks

I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists.

- John Mayer

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Artist, Grandchildren, Fans

Some urge we do nothing because we can't be certain how bad the (climate) problem might become or they presume the worst effects are most likely to occur in our grandchildren's lifetime. I'm a proud conservative, and I reject that kind of live-for-today, 'me generation,' attitude. It is unworthy of us and incompatible with our reputation as visionaries and problem solvers. Americans have never feared change. We make change work for us.

- John McCain

topic: Attitude, Grandchildren, Live For Today

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

- Gore Vidal

topic: Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandson, My Grandfather

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.

- Antonella Gambotto-Burke

topic: Passion, Grandchildren, Play, Prosthetics, Bad Jokes

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

topic: Kids, Thinking, Grandchildren, Raising Kids, Great Society

The world is not going to change overnight, nor in my lifetime, nor in my grandchildren's lifetime. But it will change, if we change, not for a day or a year, but for a lifetime. Yes, it will change, if we change.

- Tom Regan

source: Source: www.all-creatures.org

topic: Grandchildren, Years, World

When I want to be bold about my movement ... I for sure do not call it exercise!

- Mary Anne Radmacher

source: Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

topic: Exercise, Grandchildren, Movement

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

- Tony Campolo

topic: Kids, Grandchildren, Rewards, My Grandchildren, Children And Grandchildren

Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Beautiful, Ambition, Grandchildren

God not only loves his people but delights in each one of us. He takes great pleasure in us. He's actually blessed in keeping and delivering us. I see this kind of parental pleasure in my wife, Gwen, whenever one of our grandchildren calls. Gwen lights up like a Christmas tree when she has one of our dear little ones on the line. Nothing can get her off the phone. Even if I told her the President was at our door, she'd shoo me away and keep talking. How could I ever accuse my heavenly Father of delighting in me less than I do in my own offspring?

- David Wilkerson

topic: Father, Blessed, Grandchildren, Keep Talking, Heavenly Father

I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.

- Tracy Morgan

source: "Tracy Morgan ‘Cop Out’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. February 22, 2010.

topic: Stars, Grandchildren, Long, Great Grandchildren

Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.

- Tracy Morgan

source: Source: lasentinel.net

topic: Stars, Grandchildren, Long, Great Grandchildren

Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.

- Umair Haque

topic: Grandchildren, Grandpa, Leader, My Grandchildren, Best Grandparents

Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.

- Demetri Martin

source: Twitter post from Sep 21, 2012

topic: Grandchildren, Eras, Someday

When I am playing with my grandchildren, that brings glory to God. So I don't think glory to God is simply serious. I do think that there is glory of God in laughter.

- Rick Warren

source: Source: www.christianpost.com

topic: Laughter, Grandchildren, Thinking

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

- Robert Breault

topic: Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandpa, Grandkids, Children And Grandchildren

It is perfectly possible that a grandfather can have a more scientific mind than his grandchildren! Societies do not always go forward! Sometimes old generations are much luckier!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Grandchildren, Mind, Grandfather

I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or time and memory and how they look when you get to be in your sixties, and I thought, "Well, yes but people are dying every day in Baghdad," I wouldn't feel guilty about not writing about Baghdad if I didn't have any good ideas about how to write about it.

- Robert Hass

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Memories, Writing, Grandchildren