Grandchildren Quotes - Page 10

• During a charity boxing match on Friday, Mitt Romney lasted two rounds against Evander Holyfield and raised a million dollars. It was just like Holyfield's fight with Mike Tyson, except Romney chewed off his other ear talking about his 18 grandchildren.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Friday, Fighting, Talking

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• Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.

  John Ensign

  Children, Debt, Levels

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• There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Future, Order, Land

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.459, Best Books on

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• I want my children and grandchildren to see what I look like now.

  Kylie Bax

  Children, Looks, Want

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• You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship - for your grandchildren, for example - or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise.

  Mark Skousen

  Party, Government, Organization

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• Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Sex, Years, Adoption

  "Reparations for Gay Americans". The Detroit Free Press, April 07, 2009.

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• I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.

  Mort Kondracke

  Rights, People, Growth

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• [When told that her grandchild had her nose:] I didn't get this nose until I was thirty-four.

  Joan Rivers

  Noses, Four, Thirty

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• I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Book, Character

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• Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Children, Spain, Germany

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• Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.

  Werner Herzog

  Punishment, Achievement, Everyday

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• Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

  John Cleese

  Strong, Children, Years

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• Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Doe, Born

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• Thierry Henry my grandchildren, hopefully my great grandchildren gonna have to hear about him because is super, absolutely super, top guy, top player

  Martin Tyler

  Player, Guy, Hopefully

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• Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that sea-levels have risen at all. As so often in this domain, there is conflicting evidence. The melting of polar or sea ice has no direct effect.

  Don Aitkin

  Direct Effect, Ice, Sea

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• Should we now explain to UK couples who plan a family that stopping at two children, or at least having one less than first intended, is the simplest and biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet for our grandchildren?

  John Guillebaud

  Children, Couple, Two

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• I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Presidential, Arms

  "Statement by the President to American Women Concerning their Role in Securing World Peace". November 1, 1963.

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• A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what in God's name were they doing?" or they may look back and say: "how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?"

  Al Gore

  Children, Names, Two

  "Our World" with David Newman, www.voanews.com. October 27, 2009.

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• It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.

  Jon Runyan

  Children, Years, Trying

  "Shutdown Corner interview: Congressman-elect Jon Runyan". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. November 05, 2010.

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• What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

  Richard Rorty

  World, Great Grandchildren

  "Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality)". Book by Richard Rorty, March 13, 1998.

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• I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.

  Isabel Allende

  Girl, Children, Grateful

  Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

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• If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Children, Suffering, Climate

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• Shall any of us repine that it is our lot to live in perilous and sacrificial days? Rather I say we are glad that we live in this time of mortal struggle and are doing our share to put to flight the powers of darkness. Our children and grandchildren will be proud that this country saved freedom for itself by helping to preserve it for the world.

  Thomas W. Lamont

  Country, Children, Freedom

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• God doesn't have any grandchildren.

  E. Stanley Jones

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• ...I believe deeply that we canot solve the challenges of your time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have differnt stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction - towards a better future for our children and our grandchildren. This belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people.

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Children, Believe

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