Quotes About Grandsons

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Gore Vidal

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

Leonardo Da Vinci

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Susan Lucci

#10. 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

#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. 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

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

Daniel Burnham

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Pat Boone

#18. Zi, most people in the world have been tricked into believing they're not important.

Hu Yuan Nabe

#19. The world is always terrible.

Salman Rushdie

#20. Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

Michelle M. Pillow

#21. In the evening, I would tell my patients, sleep with the angels. In the morning, I would say to each as the French farmers still do, "Good morning to your and your companion" - meaning, of course, their angel.

Eileen Elias Freeman

#22. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#24. The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.

Ahmed Toufiq

#25. It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in the predator, but in the security of our Mother, for our future generations. In that we can insure our security as the Mothers of our Nations.

Winona LaDuke

#26. To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Rene Magritte

#27. I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.

Ryan Reynolds

#28. Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.

William Feather

#29. The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

George Eliot

#30. I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.

Alber Elbaz

#31. There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.

Terry Tempest Williams

#32. It is defeat which educates us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson