Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Vereen

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

Benjamin Spock

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

Chester Bowles

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.

Ban Ki-moon

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.

Demetri Martin

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

Ben Stein

People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.

Art Modell

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

Alexander Smith

There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

Adora Svitak

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

Al Gore

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

E. Stanley Jones

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Andy Rooney

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.

Kurt Vonnegut

I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

Bob Hope

YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.

Joan Rivers

[When told that her grandchild had her nose:] I didn't get this nose until I was thirty-four.

Joan Rivers

Grandchildren can be annoying - how many times can you go: "And the cow goes moo and the pig goes oink"? It's like talking to a supermodel.

Edie Brickell

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Joe Lieberman

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?'

Ian Somerhalder

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

James Ellroy

In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics of victimization. Reparation wasn't in the language. Nobody thought about giving the great grandchildren of black slaves so much as $1.98. And all of a sudden the bombs hit, interventionism versus isolationism became a dead issue, and it was us-versus-them in a heartbeat.

Jay Leno

Obama called on Americans to have more grandchildren. Probably so there's more of them to pay off our debt.

Gloria Allred

I have two grandchildren.

Isabel Allende

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Lois Wyse

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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

John Flanagan

I'll build mine tomorrow," Horace said through a mouthful of food. "This is excellent, Will! When I have grandchildren, I'll name them all after you!

Phyllis Diller

I still take the pill. I don't want any more grandchildren.

John Mayer

I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists

Noam Chomsky

In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy.

Nicki Minaj

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

Muhammad Yunus

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