Grandchildren Quotes - Page 18

• Since I've made it to 87 so far, obviously my two kids and my seven grandchildren haven't been too hard on me. On the other hand, the fact that I have an unlisted phone number and move a lot might have something to do with it.

  George Burns

  Humorous, Moving, Kids

  George Burns (1983). “How to Live to be 100--or More: The Ultimate Diet, Sex, and Exercise Book”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

  Omar Sharif

  Son, Ideas, People

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• My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

  Michael Caine

  Daughter, Wife, Sense Of Humor

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• Everyone in Senate is a hurdle, but everyone in there has children. Everyone in there has grandchildren. No one wants to see our kids continue to gain weight, have high blood pressure high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression.

  Richard Simmons

  Children, Kids, Blood

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Looks, Disappear

  "David Attenborough: 'I'm an essential evil'". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• [On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.

  Nina Totenberg

  Thinking, Justice, Mind

  "Inside Washington", PBS, July 8, 1995.

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• I don't reject the concept of preemptive war. I'm a mother of five. I have five grandchildren. And I always say: Think of a lioness. Think of a mother bear. You come anywhere near our cubs, you're dead. And so, in terms of any threat to our country, people have to know we'll be there to preemptively strike. But what the president [Bush] did was, on the basis of no real intelligence for an imminent threat to our country, chose to go into a war for reasons that are still unknown to us.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mother, Country, Real

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• I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed movies, I've done almost everything I've wanted to do.

  Carl Reiner

  Children, Book, Three

  "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

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• Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful - namely, if we can work together, we can make ourselves into whatever we are clever and courageous enough to imagine ourselves becoming. This is to set aside Kant's question "What is man?" and to substitute the question "What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

  Richard Rorty

  Clever, Philosophical, Animal

  Richard Rorty (1998). “Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

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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

  Dad, Want, Fine

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

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• For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at least channelled into productive forms, but I doubt it. I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.

  J. G. Ballard

  Children, Moving, Technology

  "JG Ballard: Theatre of Cruelty". Interview with Jean-Paul Coillard, 1998.

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• I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to strive for. I'm going to keep working toward that day coming.

  Spike Lee

  Children, Thinking, Racism

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Environment, Destruction

  "Dr. Jane Goodall: Healing and possibility of peace". Live chat, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2001.

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• Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Art, Treasure, Faces

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Wisdom of My Grandmothers: Lessons to live by, from one generation of remarkable women to the next”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

  Jeff Merkley

  Jobs, Children, Energy

  "Clean Energy is an Easy Choice" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• 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

  Opportunity, Giving, Grandparent

  "Abbas Kiarostami Wants To Reteam With Juliette Binoche, Talks ‘Like Someone In Love’ & Weighs In On The ‘Innocence Of Muslims’". Interview with Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. October 10, 2012.

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• The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

  Kay Hagan

  Children, Desire, Special

  "Sen. Hagan on marriage: 'It's time to move forward'" by Phil Reese, www.washingtonblade.com. March 27, 2013.

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• YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.

  Bob Hope

  One Thing At A Time, One Thing

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• Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.

  Ted Turner

  Impact, Today, Action

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• There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.

  Ted Turner

  Children, Peaceful, World

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• I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

  Alan Bradley

  Children, Father, Book

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• You can plant a dream.

  Anne Campbell

  Dream, Plant

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• It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

  Isaac Asimov

  Animal, Thinking, World

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• The cars that our children and grandchildren will be driving in the future will be greener as a result of high-tech lessons learned.

  Ron Dennis

  Children, Car, Lesson Learned

  "Exclusive Interview With Mclaren Chief Ron Dennis". Interview with Jonathan Noble, www.autosport.com. April 19, 2014.

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• The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Girl, Kids, Littles

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones (1964). “The changing world: an editor's outlook”

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