Grandchildren Quotes

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

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Opportunity, Missing

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

  Margaret Mead

  Grandma, Grandmother, Order

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Grandma

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony

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• Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

  Andy Rooney

  Grandmother, Elephants, Grandpa

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.182, PublicAffairs

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

  Doug Larson

  Grandma, Grandmother, Fighting

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• Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

  Mary Calderone

  Children, Husband, People

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

  Doug Larson

  Grandmother, Ideas, Views

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

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Glowing

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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

  Rembrandt

  Art, Nature, Painting

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

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

  Ian Somerhalder

  Louisiana, Able, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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• There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

  John Thune

  Country, Children, Years

  "Senator John Thune Doesn't Plan to Run For President". www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2011.

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• The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Grandparent, Debt, Bears

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• 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

  Writing, Grandparent, Way

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

  Robert Breault

  Grandmother, Grandpa, Pleasure

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• But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.

  John Shadegg

  Retirement, Children, Negative

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

  Wilford Brimley

  Son, Three, Seven

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• Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

  Lewis Mumford

  Family, Father, Grandmother

  The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)

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• 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

  Past, Giving, Grandparent

  Jay Kesler (1993). “Grandparenting: The Agony and the Ecstasy”, Vine Books

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• 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

  Baby, Grandma, Grandmother

  Liv Ullmann (1979). “Without Makeup, Liv Ullmann: A Photo-biography”

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• My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

  Sally Field

  Mother, Son, College

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• I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Regret, Children, World

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• 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

  Military, Cutting, Grandmother

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• If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Children, Kids, Fighting

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

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