Sayings About Your Grandchildren

#1. 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

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

CM Punk

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

Gene Perret

#4. When your grandchildren ask you what you did during the war, you can say, I made this movie.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#5. We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible ... If your daughter is not impermanent, she cannot grow up to become a woman. Then your grandchildren would never manifest.

Nhat Hanh

#6. Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

Tim Berners-Lee

#7. Laughing a lot is really good for you, embracing your children's future and embracing your grandchildren, and not having regrets and not being bitter and not being angry.

Jerry Hall

#8. Dinosaurs drank this water, did you know that? Water moves forever in a circle; someday, little ones, your grandchildren may even drink your tears.

Kim Edwards

#9. Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

Paul MacCready

#10. It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.

Stephen Colbert

#11. As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

Mary Margaret McBride

#12. Live your life. Do the dishes. Do the laundry. Take your kids to kindergarten. Raise your children and your grandchildren. Take care of the community in which you live. Make all of that your path, and follow your path with heart.

Dipa Ma

#13. I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Terry Pratchett

#14. 'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

Carine Roitfeld

#15. You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know how to get it right. Plus, once you turn fifty, you kind of stop giving a shit what others think.

Liz Fenton

#16. Gentlemen, this is a story that you shall tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be.

Lt General Brian Horrocks

#17. As much as the social conservatives might not like to hear it, there will be a time when your grandchildren say: 'What was the argument with gay marriage? Who cares?'

Jim Kolbe

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

Pradeepa Pandiyan

#19. 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

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

Jim Rogers

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Mary Margaret McBride

#25. I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.

Hugo Chavez

#26. The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else in the face, and let your grandchildren pay for it. That simple principle predicts almost everything that's happening.

Noam Chomsky

#27. You see your children growing. You look at your grandchildren, and you say to yourself, 'What if I weren't here? Have I done all I can to prepare them for their role in life?' You realize that you never quite do everything, but you want to do better than what you have done.

Thomas S. Monson

#28. So you'll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren." "I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!" "Are you suggesting by that 'our' that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

Margaret Mitchell

#29. On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night."

Vivien Leigh

#30. WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE IT.

Chester Bowles

#31. I never really know the protocol for this kind of situation. It's like when you're in line at a store, and a grandma starts telling you all about her grandchildren or her arthritis, and you smile and nod along. But then it's your turn to check out, so you're just like okay, well, good-bye forever.

Becky Albertalli

#32. You're going to have to learn the kind of hope that makes things history. Otherwise there'll be no good hope for your own grand truths and no good truths for your own grandchildren.

Ali Smith

#33. I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.-

Oprah Winfrey

#34. With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.

Kevin Whately

#35. These fires go out but the coals don't. If this isn't ended it will be just around the corner everyday of his life. And if you don't let a boy become a man, it's no one's fault but your own when you're still wiping his ass when he should be making you grandchildren.

Brian McGreevy

#36. Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

T. S. Eliot

#37. At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#38. Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime.

Michael D. Barnes

#39. Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these years.

Anne Lamott

#40. Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

Doug Larson

#41. I've learned ... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

Andy Rooney

#42. If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.

Bikram Choudhury

#43. Only your children's grandchildren may remember our stories, but the stories are not what makes a life. It's living with a smile and a free spirit that will ripple throughout the stars.

T.S. Wieland

#44. If you walk out on him, I will beat you so hard your great-grandchildren will feel it.

Angel Martinez

#45. Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

Tony Campolo

#46. I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

Ellen Barkin

#47. I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.

Kathleen Battle

#48. When you look into the eyes of your children and grandchildren, when you picture their greatness and potential, do you feel that they are getting the education that is up to par with who they were born to become?

Oliver DeMille

#49. I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love. Look into your hearts. This is our country. This is our future. These are our children and grandchildren. You can trust Mitt.

Ann Romney

#50. My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

Lord Mountbatten

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

Doug Larson

#52. You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions ... no matter what the question is ... without being judgmental.

Josh McDowell

#53. If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done.

Prince Charles

#54. 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

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

Jane Smiley

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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