Grandchildren Quotes - Page 17

• I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.

  Lauryn Hill

  Kids, Grandmother, Jersey

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• 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

  Thinking, Interesting, Parent

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

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• Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Evil, Unions, Helping

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• Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the plains, hacked down the trees, and took the Spanish words she encountered and made them hers. Now her great-great-grandchildren sit terrified, wondering what to do with all these Mexicans. The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Running, Dream, Grandmother

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I really don't have any weaknesses. I do have areas of my life that I am working on to grow, heal and evolve. Giving myself permission to rest is an area I am working on. Not rescuing my children and grandchildren is another area.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Children, Giving, Weakness

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

  Gene Perret

  Nice, Grandmother, Play

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

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• 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

  Son, People, Wake Up

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It was by coincidence that I ended up opening my first shop in 1968, and I haven't stopped since. I now find myself trying to do everything. I couldn't live without creating my collections, without writing, drawing and reading. But I couldn't either live without being close to my children on a daily basis and also to my grandchildren, and to all the people I love. I guess I am like every woman today, one who juggles her work and family life.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Children, Reading, Writing

  "Stilorama Magazine Interviews Sonia Rykiel". www.stilorama.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves their dead parents and so on and so forth. There is a legacy of language and culture and religion. In some cases, family stories told by grandparents to little grandchildren. When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds or thousands of years earlier in time. Everybody comes from somewhere.

  Amos Oz

  Grandparent, Culture, Legacy

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Children, Husband, Commitment

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over it, even though rationally maybe I should. I have faith that these terrible trends will change, and they will not go to their logical conclusions of climate change, militarism, pollution, overpopulation.

  Robert Thurman

  Thinking, Trends, Have Faith

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If confirmed, Judge [Samuel] Alito could serve on the court for generation or more. And the decisions he will make as justice will have a direct impact on the lives and liberties of our children, our grandchildren, and even our great-grandchildren.

  Edward Kennedy

  Children, Impact, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.

  Muhammad Ali

  Daughter, Son, Men

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• 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

  Running, Men, Guy

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• 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

  Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Children, Humor

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• 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

  Artist, Fans, Said

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

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• 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

  Hurt, Hands, History

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• 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

  Past, Years, Advice

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• 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

  Loss, Ideas, Half

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

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

  Cristina Saralegui

  Dog, Kids, House

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• My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Country, Dog, Children

  "Abba's Agnetha Fältskog returns - and unravels the mystery of her silence" by John Lucas, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2013.

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• I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

  Madeleine Albright

  Morning, Children, Grateful

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Merchandising, Courses

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.71, Dial Press

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• Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of no better tribute to them than giving them some.... I can't help thinking that the cycle is not complete until I can introduce them to a child of their child. And I can think of no better comfort when they are gone than to know that something of them lives on, not only in me but in my children.

  Anne Cassidy

  Children, Thinking, Giving

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