Quotes by Grandchildren I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me. Aaron Taylor-Johnson grandchildren dad want I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild. Aasif Mandvi grandchildren interesting thinking Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time. Abbas Kiarostami grandchildren opportunity giving 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. Adora Svitak grandchildren media should-have Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure. Adriana Trigiani grandchildren treasure art The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence. Adrienne Rich grandchildren memories lying Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake. Al Gore grandchildren civilization way I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different. Alexander Lebed grandchildren different men 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. Alexander Smith grandchildren perfection fire Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves their dead parents and so on and so forth. There is a legacy of language and culture and religion. In some cases, family stories told by grandparents to little grandchildren. When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds or thousands of years earlier in time. Everybody comes from somewhere. Amos Oz grandparent grandchildren culture 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 grandchildren fists littles Elephants and grandchildren never forget. Andy Rooney grandchildren grandmother elephants You can plant a dream. Anne Campbell grandchildren plant dream Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m looking for a fat, cross-eyed hunchback,' he explains, stifling a giggle. 'A prosthetic hump would do.' His delight evaporates when asked about his three grandchildren. 'Am I a doting grandfather?' He pauses. 'I’m a … something grandfather, yes.' The fact that De Bono remains unperturbed by this lack betrays an emotionally austere childhood, and his passions for play, toys, and bad jokes tell of the same deprivation. Antonella Gambotto-Burke grandchildren passion play I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed in my lifetime. I really think it’s coarsened. It’s coarsened in so many ways. One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. You can’t go to a movie — or watch a television show for that matter — without hearing the constant use of the F-word — including, you know, ladies using it. People that I know don’t talk like that! Antonin Scalia grandchildren kids thinking I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through Art Modell my-grandchildren grandchildren want Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful. Arthur C. Clarke grandchildren ambition beautiful 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 grandparent grandchildren writing 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 grandchildren suffering hands 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. Ben Stein grandchildren want people 1234567891011»