Granddaughter Quotes

• I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

  Ann Romney

  Jobs, Dad, Kids

  Ann Romney's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 28, 2012.

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• Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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

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• Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

  Gore Vidal

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• My granddaughter and I are inseparable. She keeps me wrapped around her little finger.

  Gene Perret

  Children, Littles, Fingers

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• I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!

  Kerry Washington

  College, Islands, Volunteer

  "2012 Democratic Convention: Stars Take Center Stage on Final Day" by Tina Daunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 6, 2912.

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• The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you.

  Dom DeLuise

  Beautiful, Believe, Wife

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• My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

  Billy Crystal

  Want, Comedy, Birth

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• I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.

  Joanna Lumley

  Blessing, Fit, Drawers

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• I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

  Paris Hilton

  Paris, Want, Grand Daughter

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• So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

  Pat Boone

  Daughter, Mother, Four

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• Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out the candles on her cake, it exploded.

  Craig Kilborn

  Blow, Cake, Firsts

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• But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter

  Sally Field

  Mean, Years, Broken

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• I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?

  Bernie Mac

  Daughter, Feelings, Emotion

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• Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dark, Thinking, Civilization

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.102, Vintage

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• There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Children, Father

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1343, BookCaps Study Guides

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• To think that someone we loved, trusted, opened our home to could do this to our daughter and granddaughter is beyond belief.

  Joe Flaherty

  Daughter, Home, Thinking

  "Neil Entwistle Pleads Not Guilty". foxnews.com. February 17, 2006.

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

  Gene Perret

  Grandchildren, Grandparent, People

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

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• Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

  Dr. Seuss

  Children, Discovery, Wish

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• I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.

  Jacques Pepin

  Daughter, Easter, Garden

  "Jacques Pépin is Not a Mallow Man". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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• My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Niece, Believe, Etc

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• For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Daughter, Sky, Limits

  "Pelosi: 'Let us work together'", www.cnn.com. January 4, 2007.

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• I've been, I think, able to stay grounded in such a crazy business, and I attribute that a lot to my family, and especially to my mother. Because, you know, she just was always there to kind of remind me of what priorities should be. O.K., yes, I'm an artist, I'm a performer, but I'm a sister, I'm a daughter, I'm a granddaughter, I'm an aunt. Those things have to be as important, if not more important, than my career.

  Debbie Gibson

  Daughter, Mother, Crazy

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• I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

  Madeleine Albright

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.

  Sean Moran

  Children, Growing Up, Home

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• Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.

  Cristina Garcia

  Adventure, Interesting, Live Your Life

  Cristina Garcia (2009). “I Wanna Be Your Shoebox”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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