The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. — Sam Levenson
If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed. — Michio Kaku
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. — Doug Larson
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town. — Gene Perret
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. — Lois Wyse
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. — Margaret Mead
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
Short Great Grandchildren Quotes
Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves. — Andrew Carnegie
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. — Lewis Mumford
This generation can only reach this generation. — David Livingstone
The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren. — Doug Larson
With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same. — Kevin Whately
Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants. — Danish proverb
Great Grandchildren Image Quotes
Silence is a source of great strength.
Great Grandkids Quotes
Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them. — Jay Kesler
I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds. — Phil Robertson
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. — Gene Perret
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution? — Matt Damon
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. — Gene Perret
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet. — Gene Perret
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?" — Mike Tyson
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. — Gene Perret
What happens when you put all your money into your home? Everybody's going to want to move in, whereas rich people set money off for their great-great grandkids. They got money that's circling for itself. — Redman
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren. — Art Linkletter
Grandchildren Quotes
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. — Albert Einstein
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
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
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing. — David Attenborough
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung
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
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
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
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. — Lois Wyse
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
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. — Astrid Lindgren
Great Grand Quotes
They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore. — John Gierach
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of. — Emily Carr
Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea. — Walt Whitman
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean. — Mary Kingsley
In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony. — Theodore E. Steinway
The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that twists and turns as it hurtles forward. A grand debut. One taste, and you'll be addicted. — Keith Donohue
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. — Mark Twain
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end. — George Matthew Adams
The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies. — Alexander Crummell
The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth. — Leonard Ravenhill
Grandkids Quotes
I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me. — Jonah Hill
It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to. — Herman Cain
I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots! — Michael Landon
To a great mind, nothing is little.
My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. — Gene Perret
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. — William Osler
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. — Paulette Alden
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids. — Ayelet Waldman
I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense. — Gene Perret
Perhaps, one of our greatest challenges as a nation, as a people, as human beings making sure that our grandkids can live on this Earth. — Barbara Boxer
Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future. — Michio Kaku
My Grandchildren Quotes
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
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
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
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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
I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren. — Mitt Romney
My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren. — Simon Wiesenthal
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
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
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
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. — Ogden Nash
My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. — Gene Perret
Granddaughter Quotes
I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family. — Debbie Reynolds
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. — Zora Neale Hurston
I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. — Ann Romney
I am the granddaughter of an English woman. I love England and her people and, regardless of politics, consider you to be family... and always will. — Nicola Sturgeon
I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever — Elizabeth Warren
I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! — Kerry Washington
I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her. - Bones to Cat's grandparents — Jeaniene Frost
The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you. — Dom DeLuise
I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris. — Paris Hilton
Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under Sharia law. — Thomas Sowell
Grandchildren And Grandparents Quotes
Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren. — Grandma Moses
A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma. — Teresa Bloomingdale
What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren. — Vaughn J Featherstone
Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations. — Jimmy Carter
What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. — Bill Cosby
I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with. — Gene Perret
Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha. — Hal Boyle
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all. — Fanny Fern
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap. — Liv Ullmann
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
Grandmother And Grandchildren Quotes
You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what. — Sam Levenson
I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left. — Gene Perret
I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. — Susan Strasberg
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. — J. Norman Collie
I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids. — Robert Breault
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. — Robert Breault
And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through. — Geraldine Ferraro
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. — Igor Stravinsky
I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain. — Gene Perret
I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For the Democratic women of the House, our work is not about the next election, but rather the next generation. — Nancy Pelosi
Children And Grandchildren Quotes
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. — Heinrich Himmler
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. — Mitt Romney
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. — Dipa Ma
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. — E. B. White
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. — D. H. Lawrence
A better world begins with our children. Our boys and, crucially, our girls. — Ursula von der Leyen
It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom. — Joko Widodo
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. — Lisa Loeb
A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren. — Elizabeth May
Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures. — Chaka Fattah
Great Grandma Quotes
My great grandma always told me to drink a lot of milk because it's good for the skin. — Barbara Palvin
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. — Pam Brown
I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um,
it was a combination of peyote and preserves, and it was this hallucinogenic jam. — Eddie Vedder
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it. — Zach Anner
"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive. — Gene Perret
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. — William Shakespeare
Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned ravioli. — Laurie Halse Anderson
I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men. — Dolly Parton
I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love. — Taryn Manning
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
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
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
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
What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren? — Richard Rorty
My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather. — Leonard Marx
My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have. — Ian Somerhalder
When you look into the eyes of your children and grandchildren, when you picture their greatness and potential, do you feel that they are getting the education that is up to par with who they were born to become? — Oliver DeMille
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
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
I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress. — Colleen Atwood
In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics of victimization. Reparation wasn't in the language. Nobody thought about giving the great grandchildren of black slaves so much as $1.98. And all of a sudden the bombs hit, interventionism versus isolationism became a dead issue, and it was us-versus-them in a heartbeat. — James Ellroy
This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty to bequeath it to our grandchildren in better shape than however we found it. We have a long way to go and we're not getting any younger.Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and thank you, dear reader. It's a beautiful world, rain or shine, and there is more to life than winning. — Garrison Keillor
These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last! — John Dillinger
I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, 'Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what's the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?' — Jane Goodall
I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young. — Jimmy Carter
If we're concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that's healthy and strong. — Cory Booker
Shooting great-grandchildren of some of the people I had photographed in the past, who are around the age of 15, is fascinating to me, because they're right on this fine line between still being children and starting to become themselves. — Tina Barney
I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they would learn about history, they would learn about human nature. They would learn about, "Can the individual make a difference or is it great forces?" Tolstoy is always battling with those large issues. Mostly, a whole world would come alive for them through that book. — Doris Kearns Goodwin
I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about. — Lena Horne
America is great, because America is good. And it really is up to all of us to make that true, now and in the future, and particularly for our children and our grandchildren. — Hillary Clinton
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
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