My Grandsons Quotes

#1. I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#2. What a trip life is.

Art Hochberg

#3. May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is
and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.

Bette Davis

#4. One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

Taylor Caldwell

#5. Because I am your favourite grandson, and you love me more than all of my brothers."
"Nyet. You are the most frustrating of my grandsons. Find a good woman, marry her, have children - then you will be my favourite."
"Perhaps I shall settle for second favourite. What would that take?

Karen Hawkins

#6. Gestures are all that I have.

Garth Stein

#7. There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

Federica Montseny

#8. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

Daniel Burnham

#9. Did you ever dream this could happen to us? He said, No I didn't, but I should have. After we all helped create this mess, we were not doomed to have the Islamic Republic. And in a sense, he was right.

Azar Nafisi

#10. My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

Dan Gable

#11. The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

Lin Yutang

#12. Perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters ... glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

Aldo Leopold

#13. So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

Pat Boone

#14. My grandsons really love my apple cake, which is from my grandmother's recipe.

Susan Lucci

#15. The Black woman in the South who raises sons, grandsons and nephews had her heartstrings tied to a hanging noose. Any break from routine may herald for them unbearable news.

Maya Angelou

#16. Your daughters are my wives and want none of you. Your grandsons are my sons, and owe you nothing. While I stood on your land, I gave you honor you did not deserve, but now I am not bound by the obligations of guests and hosts.

Anita Diamant

#17. I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the people here and the anguish and suffering and deprivation of human rights that you have experienced ever since 1948.

Jimmy Carter

#18. I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy.

Brad Goreski

#19. Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

John McGahern

#21. Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends ... When Arjuna thus saw his kinsmen face to face in both lines of battle, he was overcome by grief and despair and thus he spoke with a sinking heart.

Juan Mascaro

#22. We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#23. I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.

Gore Vidal

#24. It was probably not so unusual to be a different person with a different man, for all parts were authentically within, waiting to be coaxed out by one person or another

Anita Shreve

#25. I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it.

Ruth Rendell

#26. We used to stay inside for recess
because outside was worse

Shane Koyczan