Grandchildren Quotes

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Opportunity, Missing

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  Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandma, Grandmother, Order

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

  Lois Wyse

  Mother, Children, Grandma

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony

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• Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

  Andy Rooney

  Grandmother, Elephants, Grandpa

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.182, PublicAffairs

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• Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

  Doug Larson

  Grandma, Grandmother, Fighting

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• Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

  Mary Calderone

  Children, Husband, People

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• The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

  Doug Larson

  Grandmother, Ideas, Views

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

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Glowing

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

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• The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

  David Attenborough

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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• The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Grandparent, Debt, Bears

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• Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Nature, Painting

  "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

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• There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

  John Thune

  Country, Children, Years

  "Senator John Thune Doesn't Plan to Run For President". www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2011.

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• My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Louisiana, Able, Way

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

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• My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

  Sally Field

  Mother, Son, College

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• And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Military, Cutting, Grandmother

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• Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

  Chaka Fattah

  Children, Cost, Debt

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• To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

  Robert Breault

  Grandmother, Grandpa, Pleasure

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• I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.

  Tom Coburn

  Dream, Children, Believe

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• My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

  Marilyn Horne

  Beautiful, Mother, Daughter

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• Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.

  Jay Kesler

  Past, Giving, Grandparent

  Jay Kesler (1993). “Grandparenting: The Agony and the Ecstasy”, Vine Books

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• Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

  Lewis Mumford

  Family, Father, Grandmother

  The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)

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• I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

  Susan Strasberg

  Grandma, Home, Grandmother

  Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”

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• When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

  Carly Fiorina

  Children, Cutting, Thinking

  "Carly Fiorina on 'Your World'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 21, 2010.

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• I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Regret, Children, World

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