I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.
Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.
The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
Let us not live a life … that would bring regret. … It is not going to matter very much how much money you made, what kind of a house you lived in, what kind of a car you drove, the size of your bank account—any of those things. What is going to matter is that dear woman who has walked with you side by side as your companion through all of the years of life and those children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their faithfulness and their looking to you … with respect and love and deference and kindness.
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: