Grandchildren Quotes - Page 8

• I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

  Michael Fish

  Garden, Tree, Fish Tanks

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• I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

  Dorothy Malone

  Horse, Gardening, Cotton

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As much as the social conservatives might not like to hear it, there will be a time when your grandchildren say: 'What was the argument with gay marriage? Who cares?'

  Jim Kolbe

  Gay, Who Cares, Might

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

  Doug Larson

  Family, Faith, Humanity

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

  Joanne Woodward

  Children, Planets, My Children

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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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• How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.

  David Attenborough

  Eye, Looks, World

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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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• [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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• 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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• So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive. Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping. When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!

  Bob Brown

  Heart, Eye, Shopping

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• It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, Book, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• In 50 years, your grandchildren will be asking you where you were when CM Punk beat the Undertaker's streak!

  CM Punk

  Years, Cm Punk, Asking

  "WWE Raw", March 11, 2013.

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• Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Profound, Climate

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• I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  America, Giving, Way

  Speech to Western diplomats, Moscow, 18 Nov. 1956.

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• I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist.

  Katie McGrath

  One Day, Toys, Want

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• Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth of Nations is still being read today. With the same perspicacity and with the same broad historical perspective, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson have retackled this same question for our own times. Two centuries from now our great-great- . . . -great grandchildren will be, similarly, reading Why Nations Fail.

  George Akerlof

  Book, Reading, Two

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