Grandchildren Quotes - Page 21

• The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

  Luther Burbank

  Love, Knowledge, Garden

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• It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

  Helen Keller

  Happy, God, Dark

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• My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

  Reba McEntire

  Winning, Awards, Selling More

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Witty, Badass, Mistake

  The New York Times Magazine, October 04, 1953.

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Sweet, Mistake, Home

  N.Y. Times Magazine, 4 Oct. 1953

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• Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Kissing, May

  Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (2003). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.532, Barnes & Noble

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• Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

  E. B. White

  Children, True Friend, Life Changing

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Freedom, Fighting

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.458, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart.

  Paul Harding

  Heart, Ribs, Littles

  Paul Harding (2011). “Tinkers”, p.34, Random House

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• Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, Native American, Thinking

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• How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.

  John Templeton

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Children

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• All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

  Martin Luther

  God, Faith, Prayer

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• Grandchildren can be annoying - how many times can you go: "And the cow goes moo and the pig goes oink"? It's like talking to a supermodel.

  Joan Rivers

  Pigs, Talking, Cows

  "Thanks for the Laughs, Joan Rivers: 47 of Her Greatest Jokes" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. September 04, 2015.

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• I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Atheist, Crazy

  "Newt talks faith at Texas church" by Kendra Marr, www.politico.com. March 27, 2011.

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• I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.

  Sean Penn

  Eye, Gay, Thinking

  Sean Penn's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2009.

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• I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren, and others, on through the generations. Each of us is important to those who are near and dear to us and as our posterity reads of our life's experiences, they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Children, Memories, Inspiration

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• I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. But the problems are such that for anybody with a conscience who can use whatever influence he may have to try to bring about peace, it's difficult to say no.

  Nelson Mandela

  Rest In Peace, Children, Compassion

  "Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.

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• The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Sacrifice, Men, Afterlife

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• We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Hands, Suffering, Together

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• We are the ancestors of our grandchildren's children. We look after them, just as our ancestors look after us. We aren't here for ourselves. We are here for each other and for the children of our grandchildren.

  Roy Sesana

  Children, Looks, Ancestor

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• When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.

  Gary Haugen

  Compassion, Leader, Purpose

  Gary Haugen, Gregg Hunter (2010). “Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers. Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.

  Julian Assange

  Adventure, Eye, Stories

  "Witnessing". January 03, 2007.

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• A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Children, Miracle, Greater

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• A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

  George Orwell

  Regret, Tree, Trying

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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