Top 716 Nana's And Grandchildren Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

I am very proud of my two grandchildren and I visit them very often.

The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

My grandchildren are my lifeline. I adore them and look forward to the time I get to meet and play with them.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren.

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

Most players play with a dream that some day, when they have finished, people will tell their grandchildren that they were a good player. I am the same.

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.

We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure for our children and our grandchildren, for generations to come.

It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.

I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew even­tually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.

We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

It is perfectly possible that a grandfather can have a more scientific mind than his grandchildren! Societies do not always go forward! Sometimes old generations are much luckier!

Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.

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

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.

I don't intend to spend my morning being lectured to by a president whose failed policies have put our children and grandchildren in a huge burden of debt.

I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.

I can't think of anything that's hit me harder in my life than when I learned that three of our youngest grandchildren were diagnosed with Niemann-Pick C.

My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.

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

Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.

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.

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.

We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well - and for each of God's children.

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some grandchildren. You can't overestimate the kind of opening to the future that gives a person, I think.

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

When my grandchildren ask, 'Where were you when Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to Lady Liberty?' I want to make sure I can tell them I was there protecting America.

With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.

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?

I am very patient. I take pride in being patient with my husband, my children, my grandchildren.

I believe we owe it to our children and grandchildren to stay engaged and to help spread liberty and to help reformers.

I'm a grandmother and like every grandmother, I worry about the safety and security of my grandchildren, but my worries are not the same as black grandmothers.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren.

We have to defeat Hillary Clinton, or the country we know will not be the country our children and grandchildren grow up in.

What we want to do is to give all children and grandchildren of Holocaust victims the opportunity to become Austrian citizens if they want to.

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

We are in a struggle against the forces of radical Islam and terror, which must be defeated for our children and our grandchildren.

Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle

I work every day from 9:30 or so until lunchtime. In the afternoons, I become a normal person - go shopping and do the garden and look after my grandchildren.

A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.

I take all my grandchildren down to the garden and they spend hours and hours eating peas.

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