Grandchildren Quotes - Page 5

• My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Believe, Grandmother

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• Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.

  Jenny Shipley

  Children, Commitment, Issues

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• What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Grandmother, Giving

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• I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through

  Art Modell

  Want, My Grandchildren

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• My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Fabulous, My Grandchildren

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• I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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• The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

  Dave Barry

  Baby, Grandma, Grandmother

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.54, Rodale

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• Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

  Pam Brown

  Wise, Mother, Grandma

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• What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  Children, Grandmother, Grandparent

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• With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.

  Kevin Whately

  Children, Grandchildren And Grandparents, Children And Grandchildren

  "Kevin Whately On Life Without Morse". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2007.

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• The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Grandma, Past

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• Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

  Warren Beatty

  Motivational, Children, Narcissistic

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• As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spiritual, Loss, Government

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

  Jimmy Carter

  Responsibility, Pride, Past

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from.

  A.M. Homes

  Family, Children, Agreement

  A.M. Homes (2012). “The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir”, p.93, Granta Books

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• If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

  Isabel Allende

  World, Better Place, Ifs

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• Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Brother, Sibling

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• The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

  Billy Graham

  Children, Character, Legacy

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• It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Rain, Flower

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

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• I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.

  George Voinovich

  Children, Mass Destruction, Bully

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• The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

  Dale Carnegie

  Sweet, Way, Literature

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Children, Grandmother, Special

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• Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

  Unknown

  Beautiful, Sunset, Perfect

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• A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren.

  Phil Moss

  Grandmother, Too Much, Fool

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• I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

  Andy Rooney

  Fists, Littles, I've Learned

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