Grandchildren Quotes

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.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

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

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

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.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

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.

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.

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.

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our 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.

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.

If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

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

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. ...Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

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

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

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

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.

Live your life. Do the dishes. Do the laundry. Take your kids to kindergarten. Raise your children and your grandchildren. Take care of the community in which you live. Make all of that your path, and follow your path with heart.

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

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.

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.

Descendants of Queen Victoria - from 1837 to 1901 and her consort, had nine children, 42 grandchildren, and 87 great-grandchildren. Victoria and Albert had 20 grandsons and 22 granddaughters

Descendants of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz - Here follows a list of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of George III of the United Kingdom and his wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Descendants of Winston Churchill - Blanche Hozier. By Clementine, Churchill had five children and ten grandchildren, a number of whom are well known in their own right. by Clementine Churchill

Storms of My Grandchildren - Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity is climate scientist James Hansen's first

Elizabeth Bolden - August 2006, Bolden had 40 grandchildren, 75 great-grandchildren, 150 great-great-grandchildren, 220 great-great-great grandchildren and 75

Things the Grandchildren Should Know - Things the Grandchildren Should Know is an autobiography by Mark Oliver Everett, the front man of the independent rock band Eels. Everett spent a year

List of grandchildren of Paul I of Russia - Through his grandchildren, Paul I of Russia is an ancestor of many European royals. Margrethe II of Denmark is a 4x great-grandchild through her great-great

Descendants of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile - powerful monarchs and well-connected women. In time, many of their grandchildren became emperors and kings of various countries, and their first and

Fils de France - status as if they were the king's children instead of his grandchildren or great-grandchildren. The king, queen, queen dowager, enfants de France (children

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

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.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks.

Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

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.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional.

People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.

A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.

America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand while others beat us at our own game, our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We must now establish a sense of urgency.