Grandchildren Quotes - Page 20

• In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Silence, Forgiving, Overcoming

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• I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.

  Tony Benn

  Children, Thinking, People

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• As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Grandmother, Grandparent, Trying

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• There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Kids, Grandparent, Furniture

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• My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Media, Social

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 3, 2015.

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• Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the grandchildren, too.

  Tony Benn

  Lonely, Morning, Children

  "Tony Benn: I'm not frightened by death - my wife taught me it's an adventure" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. August 3, 2013.

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• And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Mother, Fear

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.40, Penguin

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• Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

  Grandma Moses

  Grandmother, Thinking, Grandparent

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• I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

  Ray Bradbury

  Daughter, Eight, Soul

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then we've lived in sunshine and in shadow, and although we can never unsee what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults, grandchildren have been born and good works and public service have taken root to honor those we loved and lost.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Morning, Children, Taken

  "Obama: Decade Since 9/11 a Story of American Resilience". www.foxnews.com. September 11, 2011.

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• When I go to the beach, my grandchildren try to make words out of the veins in my legs. That's why I still take the pill; I don't want any more grandchildren.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Beach, Humor

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• When it's all over I won't miss the bruises he gave me to impress girls, or the occasional scar which will give me a story to tell my grandchildren, but I'll definitely miss the pranks and the laughing and all the making fun of each other. I'll miss the funky advice he gives me about everything - football, girls, video games, clothes. Most of all, I'll miss having an older brother.

  Skandar Keynes

  Girl, Football, Brother

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

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• [After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.

  Angela Alioto

  Daughter, Mother, Running

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• Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

  Will Durant

  Hands, Sacred, Theft

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Children, Destiny

  FaceBook post by Mark Batterson from Nov 22, 2014

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• Ma, I'm just trying to get going on those grandchildren you want.

  Christina Dodd

  Trying, Want

  Christina Dodd (2009). “Storm of Visions: The Chosen Ones”, p.189, Penguin

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• America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand while others beat us at our own game, our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We must now establish a sense of urgency.

  Charles M. Vest

  Children, Science, Math

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• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Dance, Recovery

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are, to provide food, shelter, protection, advice and discipline, day in and day out, they can afford to be much more easy-going. The unexpected present, the extra outing, the little treat of a favourite meal prepared especially to delight the child and, above all, the time to listen to youthful outpourings, all make a grandmother a loved ally. It is hardly surprising that the bond between grandmother and grandchild is often stronger than that between parent and child.

  Miss Read

  Children, Grandmother, Discipline

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• You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

  Meister Eckhart

  Love, Spiritual, Compassion

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• When our children and grandchildren look back on this period, one question will overwhelm all the rest: Did we do everything in our power to fight and to win the war on terror? That's the fundamental question this generation faces.

  George W. Bush

  Children, War, Fighting

  Speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• American mission in Iraq is clear: We're hunting down the terrorists. We're helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror. We're advancing freedom in the broader Middle East. We are removing a source of violence and instability and laying the foundation of peace for our children and our grandchildren.

  George W. Bush

  Children, War, Hunting

  "Transcript: President Bush‘s Fort Bragg speech". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2005.

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• I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew even­tually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.

  Don Rickles

  Nice, Kissing, Years

  Source: www.maxim.com

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• My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

  Reba McEntire

  Winning, Awards, Selling More

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• I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Education, Dice, Reading Books

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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