Grandchildren Quotes - Page 19

• I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have been fortunate enough to see multiple generations of families come see my shows.

  Sam Bush

  Grandparent, Age, Generations

  Source: www.cincygroove.com

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• I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

  Edie Brickell

  Food, Family Love, Recipes

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• Like many dads I know, I've long been motivated in all aspects of my life by my love for my children - and my desire to make the world better a better place for them, my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren.

  Thomas Carper

  Children, Dad, Long

  "Showing a Father’s Love by Protecting Our Children’s Health" by Tom Carper, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m looking for a fat, cross-eyed hunchback,' he explains, stifling a giggle. 'A prosthetic hump would do.' His delight evaporates when asked about his three grandchildren. 'Am I a doting grandfather?' He pauses. 'I’m a … something grandfather, yes.' The fact that De Bono remains unperturbed by this lack betrays an emotionally austere childhood, and his passions for play, toys, and bad jokes tell of the same deprivation. 

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Passion, Play, Wife

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• Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't.

  William Gibson

  Doubt, Computer, Distinction

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• Well, you know, my wife and I have eight children. We have now 19 grandchildren.

  Mike DeWine

  Children, Eight, Wife

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. March 19, 2013.

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• My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

  Diane Duane

  Children, Passion, Only Child

  "Wizards in a new millennium: an interview with Diane Duane". Interview with Kelly Knox, www.wired.com. August 7, 2012.

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• If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

  David Dewhurst

  Children, Way, Don't Change

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• I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.

  Erma Bombeck

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

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• All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He told stories very easily and very generously, so I loved him for that. He was a simple man, a Victorian; he was born in 1890-something. He saw no reason and had never seen any reason to question his Christian faith. His faith was strong and simple and that's it. And I, like his other grandchildren and the children in his parish, sheltered underneath it.

  Philip Pullman

  Christian, Strong, Children

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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• Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Mean, America

  "Head Snapping Hypocrisy From Reid and Obama On the Debt Ceiling" by Karl Rove, www.foxnews.com. February 8, 2011.

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• As we faithfully pay our tithes, the Lord will indeed open the windows of heaven and pour us out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. I want each of you to know, and especially my children and grandchildren, that I know, as my grandfather did, that if you always pay an honest tithing, the Lord will bless you. It will be the best investment you will ever make.

  Sheldon F. Child

  Children, Blessing, Heaven

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• What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

  David Suzuki

  Children, Happy Life, Healthy

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• My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

  Columba Bush

  Children, President, United States

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• The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Memories, Lying, Grandparent

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Hands, America

  "A Disturbing 1995 Prediction by Carl Sagan Accurately Describes America of Today" by PAUL RATNER, bigthink.com.

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• At the root of everything that we’re trying to accomplish is the belief that America has a mission. We are a nation of freedom, living under God, believing all citizens must have the opportunity to grow, create wealth, and build a better life for those who follow. If we live up to those moral values, we can keep the American dream alive for our children and our grandchildren, and America will remain mankind’s best hope.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Children, Believe

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• I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

  John Wayne

  Children, Wife, Three

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.24, Taylor Trade Publications

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• The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would be miserable stewards of creation. We would rob our own children and grandchildren.

  James Hansen

  Children, Carbon Emissions, Climate

  "Obama's tar sand trap" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so books can be opened and read, stories can be told... Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Book, Profound

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• Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Inspirational, Life, Feet

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

  Margaret Mead

  Past, Grandparent, Grandchildren And Grandparents

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Children, Eternity, Memoir

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• I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

  Joan Collins

  Travel, Children, Three

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• The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Children, Heart, Men

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