Grandchildren Quotes - Page 4

• Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandparent, Childhood, Ends

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

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• I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Children, Father, Thinking

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• The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.

  Mell Lazarus

  Children, Grandma, Grandpa

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• Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

  Hal Boyle

  Baby, Grandma, Golf

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• It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Women, Fate

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• Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

  Gene Perret

  Grandparent, People, Granddaughter

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

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• Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandparent, Forever

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

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• I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

  Nelson Mandela

  Rest In Peace, Children, Wife

  "Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.

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• The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Grandparent, Done

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• What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Kindness, Children, Life Lesson

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• If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandparent

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• On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandparent, Towns

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• Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Statistics, Indifferent

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, People, Missing

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• We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

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• If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

  Helen Thomas

  Children, Needs, Generations

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• If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Cancer, Agony, Support

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• Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

  Jane Smiley

  Son, Like You, Made

  Jane Smiley (1991). “Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas”

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• What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Children, Grandmother

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• I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.

  Mike Myers

  Kids, Thinking, Watches

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• When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

  Ogden Nash

  Grandma, Grandmother, Doors

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• My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

  Gene Perret

  Basketball, Mean, Grandmother

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• A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Beautiful, Baby, Grandma

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• Never have children, only grandchildren.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Humorous, Kids

  Gore Vidal (1995). “Palimpsest: a memoir”

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• We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.

  Jim Clyburn

  Children, Responsibility, Healthy

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