Sayings About Having Grandchildren

#1. A lot happens at 50, the best thing being that you just don't care anymore. At 40, you still care. At 30, you care way too much - and your twenties are quite frankly a nightmare. Bring on 60, I say: just imagine the joy of having grandchildren.

Jerry Hall

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

Doug Larson

#3. That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives.

Helen Garner

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

CM Punk

#5. Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they have learned that they're just like us ... And when you see that they're just like us, the rationale for discrimination melts away.

David Boies

#6. The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. She's floating outside in the maternal holding pattern all women learn after they have children, one that serves them well after grandchildren come along.

Greg Iles

#9. I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For the Democratic women of the House, our work is not about the next election, but rather the next generation.

Nancy Pelosi

#10. My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

William Shatner

#11. Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#12. I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one.

Joanna Lumley

#13. I felt on my back gentle pats like fragile wings just touching me, touching me: my grandchildren's hands.

Bret Lott

#14. The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

#15. The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

Sparky Anderson

#16. It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us.

Sara Sheridan

#17. I'd like to see my grandchildren climb trees, not stand under them. I'd like to see them learn to make bread and brown it over a fire using my toasting fork.

Laurie Graham

#18. You're a goddam funny kid, Clivey," he said. "I got sixteen grandchildren, and there's only two of em that I think is gonna amount to duckshit, and you ain't one of em - although you're on the runner-up list - but you're the only one that can make me laugh until my balls ache.

Stephen King

#19. Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

Jimmy Carter

#20. I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

John F. Kennedy

#21. Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.

Carolina Herrera

#22. One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Muhammad Yunus

#23. The struggle is against a nation that will always spit in its grandchildren's faces for immediate profit. As Vizenor would say, 'Their Mother Earth is a blond.' " In

Jim Harrison

#24. Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.

Pradeepa Pandiyan

#25. We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#26. Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

Wendell Berry

#27. I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

Jared Taylor

#28. Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.

Demetri Martin

#29. What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?

Rupert Murdoch

#30. The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#31. As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#32. My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.

J.A. Konrath

#33. I want my children and grandchildren to see what I look like now.

Kylie Bax

#34. Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

Richard Lugar

#35. A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.

Lesslie Newbigin

#36. If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

F. Murray Abraham

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

Gene Perret

#38. My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.

Billy Crystal

#39. I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through.

Art Modell

#40. There is no greater achievement than being a grandfather who tells fairy tales to grandchildren.

Eraldo Banovac

#41. And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.

Kurt Vonnegut

#42. I worry about my grandchildren because the Internet can be brutal.

Kris Jenner

#43. Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

Lois Wyse

#44. They already knew that they would be telling people about the morning for a long time to come, maybe for the rest of their lives, and the taxi ride was the first attempt at a first draft of a story that would have to satisfy parents, siblings, children, and grandchildren.

Nick Hornby

#45. Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.

Erma Bombeck

#46. I'm rarely wrong but I could be. There might be a third party. I just think that the realization that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party posed the greatest threat to our future, children, grandchildren, all of that, is going to bring everybody back to reality.

Rush Limbaugh

#47. Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years.

Mark Driscoll

#48. When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.

Gary Haugen

#49. They will know a vengeance that their grandchildren will understand and knowing it through the ages to come they will still quake in their beds! Okay, he wasn't calming down, like ... at all.

Kristen Ashley

#50. The cars that our children and grandchildren will be driving in the future will be greener as a result of high-tech lessons learned.

Ron Dennis

#51. I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don't talk to them so much about 'Abba' and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware.

Agnetha Faltskog

#52. As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#53. I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.

Isabel Allende

#54. Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

Jim Rogers

#55. Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.

Howard Zinn

#56. Our nation is defined by an unshakable belief that we, the people, have the ability to control our destiny. A belief that anyone can reach out and grab opportunity and create a more prosperous future for themselves, their children and their grandchildren.

Tim Walz

#57. I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

Harry S. Truman

#58. The war is for the family. The battle for their children's education and their grandchildren's freedom is as real to them as if they could witness the clangs of bayonets on the field or hear the blasts of mortars in the harbor.

Oliver DeMille

#59. Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents.

Willard Scott

#60. Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

Rembrandt

#61. My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

Marilyn Horne

#62. Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

Jane Smiley

#63. 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

#64. I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

Aleksandr Lebed

#65. We don't want to see our kids and grandchildren be the first generation in the modern history of America to have a lower standard of living than their parents.

Bernie Sanders

#66. We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

Jeff Merkley

#67. They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible.

Dave Kopel

#68. I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

Joan Collins

#69. When I'm laid in my coffin, I want you to put a picture of my grandchild to the right of me and and a picture of my daughter to my left. That way they will be buried with me.

Jeanne Calment

#70. Shame on us if 100 years from now our grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by Global Warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?'

Joe Lieberman

#71. Black is an old wrinkled-face queen sitting on a porch while rocking away her last days, thinking of her grandchildren
Black is the old lady's grandchildren yelling "Revolution!" so that their grandmother would die free

Umar Bin Hassan

#72. But we'll never see her again, she thought. She and Dad won't see us married. They won't see their grandchildren. We won't see their faces seeing us in our adult lives. "I

Suanne Laqueur

#73. Well, you know, my wife and I have eight children. We have now 19 grandchildren.

Mike DeWine

#74. Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.

Najib Razak

#75. It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections ... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.

Eda LeShan

#76. Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the gatekeepers of the future. The world we bequeath to our children and grandchildren will depend upon our success in building a more peaceful and decent world.

David Krieger

#77. If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

David Dewhurst

#78. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally . Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

Barack Obama

#79. Their grandchildren had reminded Will of the song about demon pox he had taught them- when they were much too young, Tessa had always thought- and that they had all memorized. They sang it all together and out of tune, scandalizing Sophie.

Cassandra Clare

#80. When my grandchildren ask me what I did in the '42 movement [Quit India Movement] I say - "I waited for it.

R.P. Noronha

#81. It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom.

Joko Widodo

#82. I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

Aaron Johnson

#83. But watch out! Be careful never to forget what you yourself have seen. . . And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren. - Deuteronomy 4:9

Gary Chapman

#84. Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.

Ted Turner

#85. Life on earth may be limited, but grandchildren were the promise of the eternal.

Nancy Thayer

#86. Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

Gene Perret

#87. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

Claudette Colbert

#88. If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.

Julian Assange

#89. A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.

Elizabeth May

#90. We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society that puts people before profits and looks after the environment.

Joan Coxsedge

#91. There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

Mary Margaret McBride

#92. I have grandchildren who are going to need every cent I make.

Letitia Baldrige

#93. I have two grandchildren. I want to hand them a planet and community that is really thriving.

Donald Berwick

#94. Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.

Sue Monk Kidd

#95. For a small investment today we could be creating something that our grandchildren will thank us for

Tim Smit

#96. Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

Hal Boyle

#97. I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

Arthur Hertzberg

#98. We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.

Ban Ki-moon

#99. Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

J. Norman Collie

#100. The good Lord gave me eight grandchildren, and I am convinced that through schools like Desert Christian that we are going to overwhelm the adversaries, not just with bombs and bullets, but with the demonstration of Christian principles.

Oliver North