Grand Daughter Quotes

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

  Gore Vidal

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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

  Paris Hilton

  Paris, Granddaughter, Want

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

  Billy Crystal

  Granddaughter, Want, Comedy

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• I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Jobs, Hair, Best Job

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• I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Daughter, Wife, Used

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• Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Two, Granddaughter

  Live Chat, www.cnn.com. January 21, 1999.

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• Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.

  Umair Haque

  Grandchildren, Grandpa, Leader

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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, Granddaughter

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• The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.

  Michio Kaku

  Technology, Doors, Nuts

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

  Pat Boone

  Daughter, Mother, Four

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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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• 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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• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Depression, Daughter, Struggle

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• I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.'

  Denis Fahey

  Daughter, Party, Patriotic

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• I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

  Doris Lessing

  Daughter, Two, Capes

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• Prostitutes have feelings; they are very human. They hurt, bleed cry and laugh just like you and me. To the people that want to legalize prostitution: Let me ask you a question. If you want to legalize it, would you now let your daughter/niece/grand daughter/sister do this? Why not sign them up for what you want legalized? And if not, WHY not? Does it make them too human for you now?

  Annie Lobert

  Daughter, Hurt, Niece

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• I am pained to listen that my daughters, grand daughters and great grand daughters are no longer safe.

  Fauja Singh

  Daughter, My Daughter, Safe

  "Fauja Singh runs for women's rights and security" by Sarabjit Pandher, www.thehindu.com. January 16, 2013.

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