My grandchildren Quotes · Page 2

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

— Gene Perret

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

— Sally Field

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

— David Attenborough

I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

— Nelson Mandela

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.

— Gene Perret

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

— Katie McGrath

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

— Gene Perret

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in…

— Rudy Giuliani

The world is not going to change overnight, nor in my lifetime, nor in my grandchildren's lifetime. But it will change, if…

— Tom Regan

And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying…

— Geraldine Ferraro

I'm a grandmother and like every grandmother, I worry about the safety and security of my grandchildren, but my worries are not…

— Hillary Clinton

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…

— Jacob M. Appel

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.…

— Nelson Mandela

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or…

— Teresa Bloomingdale

I care about my legacy that I'm leaving, not only for my fans, but for my wife and my children and my…

— Josh Turner

I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society…

— Antonin Scalia

The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon,…

— Chief Dan George

I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my…

— Robert Hass

So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are…

— Sharron Angle

I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over…

— Robert Thurman

I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this…

— Gerald R. Ford

When it's all over I won't miss the bruises he gave me to impress girls, or the occasional scar which will give…

— Skandar Keynes

Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking…

— J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

— Susan Strasberg

I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.

— Ben Vereen

On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

— Gene Perret

My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the…

— Carolina Herrera

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

— Gene Perret

I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends... and…

— Donna Karan

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take…

— Gene Perret

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.

— Bill Cosby

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

— Gene Perret

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm…

— Michael Morpurgo

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find…

— Robert Breault

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

— Robert Breault

"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

— Gene Perret

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

— Gene Perret

It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

— David Rees