Grandchildren Quotes - Page 11

• Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

  Benjamin Spock

  Grandparent

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2004). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 8th Edition”, p.441, Simon and Schuster

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• It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Children, Spring, Autumn

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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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• My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.

  Andrew Card

  Children, Secret, Important

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• I have two grandchildren.

  Gloria Allred

  Two

  "All Out Politics: Exclusive Interview with Gloria Allred (Part Two)". fourtwonine.com. September 5, 2013.

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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 went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn't live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.

  Angelina Jolie

  Strong, Children, Growing Up

  "7 major health lessons we learned from celebrities in 2015", www.foxnews.com. December 24, 2015.

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• The good Lord gave me eight grandchildren, and I am convinced that through schools like Desert Christian that we are going to overwhelm the adversaries, not just with bombs and bullets, but with the demonstration of Christian principles.

  Oliver North

  Christian, School, Eight

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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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• When I want to be bold about my movement ... I for sure do not call it exercise!

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Exercise, Movement, Want

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself, we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.

  Lois Lowry

  Father, War, Book

  "Lois Lowry, ‘Son’ And ‘The Giver’ Author, Reflects On Dystopian Novels, Psychopaths And Why Kids Make The Best Audiences". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• I don't intend to spend my morning being lectured to by a president whose failed policies have put our children and grandchildren in a huge burden of debt.

  Jeff Landry

  Morning, Children, President

  FaceBook post by Jeff Landry from Jun 01, 2011

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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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• 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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• So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

  Sharron Angle

  Country, Teenager, Asian

  "Angle to Hispanic children: “Some of you look a little more Asian to me”". lasvegassun.com. October 18, 2010.

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• Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.

  Michael Caine

  Couple, Years, Age

  "Is Anybody There? - Sir Michael Caine interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Say yes, Jenny. Promise you'll marry me. Promise you'll still be here, driving me crazy and loving me when we're little and old and surrounded by grandchildren. Promise that you'll let me love you until I take my last breath. Promise.

  Maggie Osborne

  Love, Crazy, Promise

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