Quotes and Sayings 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-Johnson -
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 -
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 Smith -
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 -
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 -
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 Vereen -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 Dodd -
I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.
-- Christine Feehan -
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
