Grandchildren Quotes - Page 6

• I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward even after we are gone. Although we have but one childhood, we relive it first through our children's and then our grandchildren's eyes.

  Anne Cassidy

  Children, Eye, Appreciate

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• Grandad has a long and earnest conversation with his grandchild. He says, you are noisy and wiggly and will be sent back if you don't pull herself together....The baby smiles complacently. She has him exactly where she wants him.

  Pam Brown

  Baby, Long, Grandfather

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• My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.

  Joanne Woodward

  Children, Planets, My Children

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• I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.

  James Hansen

  Grandpa, Grandfather, Climate

  "'We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to lead'" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

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• A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.

  Wendell Berry

  Faith, Teacher, Return

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.54, Counterpoint

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• Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

  Stephen Covey

  Mother, Children, Father

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• We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Leadership, Children, Environmental

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 26, 2006.

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• "Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Home, Mean, Grandmother

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• Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against humanity-to think that way.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Thinking, Pneumonia

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• ...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing until we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, War, Oil

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• The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else in the face, and let your grandchildren pay for it. That simple principle predicts almost everything that's happening.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Simple, Shining

  Interview by Steve Scher on KUOW-FM 94.9, 2004.

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• Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents?

  Wesley Clark

  Children, Fighting, Water

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• I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for a lot more than simply running a bath, baking cookies or babysitting grandchildren.

  Hazel McCallion

  Senior, Running, Memorable

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• Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.

  Paul Harvey

  Daughter, Father, Men

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• The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

  James Hansen

  Children, Energy, Environment

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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• There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity.

  Doug Larson

  Family, Faith, Humanity

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• [W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather ... What people (must) do is to change their behavior and their attitudes ... If we do care about our grandchildren then we have to do something, and we have to demand that our governments do something.

  David Attenborough

  Attitude, Ocean, Government

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• Some urge we do nothing because we can't be certain how bad the (climate) problem might become or they presume the worst effects are most likely to occur in our grandchildren's lifetime. I'm a proud conservative, and I reject that kind of live-for-today, 'me generation,' attitude. It is unworthy of us and incompatible with our reputation as visionaries and problem solvers. Americans have never feared change. We make change work for us.

  John McCain

  Attitude, Live For Today, Climate

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• I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

  Isabel Allende

  Love, Mother, Dog

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• It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.

  Kate Morton

  Children, Heart, Responsibility

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

  Prince Charles

  Future, Hands, Vision

  "Prince Charles on Grandchildren: Won't Leave Behind 'Poisoned Chalice'" by Emma Koonse, www.christianpost.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Looks, Apologizing, Planets

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.79, RosettaBooks

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• Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened. Some of it you would rather not think about, as you remember the pain and the sorrow. You also have time to worry about what will happen when you go into battle again.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Pain, Fear, War

  Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.89, Penguin

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• I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed in my lifetime. I really think it’s coarsened. It’s coarsened in so many ways. One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. You can’t go to a movie — or watch a television show for that matter — without hearing the constant use of the F-word — including, you know, ladies using it. People that I know don’t talk like that!

  Antonin Scalia

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society that puts people before profits and looks after the environment.

  Joan Coxsedge

  Women, People, Independence

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