“None of my 22 grandchildren have genetics played. Three of my four boys were golf pros, but I think they all sort of said, "You know, I'm not going to push" with their children. I was the same with my kids. I said, "You know, if they want to play golf, that's fine, but I'm not going to push them."” IfsThinkingKnowsWantChildrenSaidPlayKidsThreeBoysFourFineGolfGrandchildrenGenetics Author:Jack Nicklaus
“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.” BlackWorrySecuritySafetyGrandmotherGrandchildrenMy GrandchildrenSafety And Security Author:Hillary Clinton
“I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends... and whatever I haven't done.” ChildrenDoneSunHavensMy FamilyMy ChildrenFamily And FriendsGrandchildrenSkiingMy GrandchildrenLove My FamilyI Love My FamilyI Love My ChildrenLove My Children Author:Donna Karan
“I want us to heal America and bring it together because that's, I think, the best way for us to get the future that our children and our grandchildren deserve.” ThinkingWayWantChildrenTogetherAmericaDeserveOur ChildrenHealBest WayGrandchildrenWant U Author:Hillary Clinton
“America is great, because America is good. And it really is up to all of us to make that true, now and in the future, and particularly for our children and our grandchildren.” ChildrenAmericaOur ChildrenGrandchildren Author:Hillary Clinton
“There are a bunch of different movies I feel that way about. However, there is a debate because as you may know after MST3K ended there have been things like Cinematic Titanic that are the children and the grandchildren of this way of dissecting movies and making fun of them and in a way celebrating the absurdity of those movies as well. There are certain movies that sort of fit into the MST3K paradigm which is hidden gems, these weird horror/sci-fi/fantasy movies.” KnowsWayFeelsWellsMayChildrenHas BeensDifferentCertainFunFantasyFitHorrorDebateBunchCelebrateSci FiAbsurdityGrandchildrenParadigmGemsCinematicDissecting Author:Baron Vaughn
“I've spent some time in North and Central Queensland, in fact as recently as yesterday I was in Rockhampton, where the seat of Capricornia is based. I have to tell you that people in Queensland, but particularly regional Queensland, are very concerned about jobs. They are very concerned that the economic future for themselves and their children and their grandchildren should be - should be clear.” PeopleShouldChildrenFactsJobsClearEconomicConcernedYesterdaySeatsGrandchildrenQueensland Author:George Brandis
“Finally [Indira Ganhi] called a beautiful dark little boy who was playing on the lawn, and embracing him tenderly, murmured, 'This is my grandchild; this is the man I love most in the world.' It was a strange sensation to watch this very powerful woman embracing a child.” MenWorldChildrenLittlesBeautifulDarkPowerfulBoysWatchesStrangeHe ManSensationsGrandchildrenVery PowerfulLittle BoysLawnsPowerful WomenMy Grandchildren Author:Oriana Fallaci
“We have to build the country that we want to see our future children and grandchildren live in.” WantChildrenCountryOur FutureGrandchildrenChildren And Grandchildren Author:Zendaya
“If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be harmed by this are your grandchildren and they don't have any votes in the market. Their interests are worth zero. Anybody that pays attention to their grandchildren's interests is being irrational. Because what you're supposed to do is maximize your own interests, measured by wealth, right now. Nothing else matters. So destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies, but within a framework of institutional lunacy.” PeopleIfsMadeMatterReasonInterestWealthSpacePayAttentionEnvironmentPolicyRight NowVoteDollarsRationalPay AttentionZeroDestroyingIrrationalGrandchildrenFrameworkOuter SpaceLunacyDestroying The Environment Author:Noam Chomsky
“I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.” ChildrenFiveFourIncrediblesGrandchildren Author:Florence Henderson
“This time I particularly loved because it came from a real experience with my grandchildren. Having them alone alone for the first time for six or seven days and going "Wow, this is exhausting," because when you're not around little ones for a long time, you forget about how much work that is. So I came in and started writing the story that became this movie ['PARENTAL GUIDANCE'].” WritingFirstsLittlesLongRealStoriesForgetSixLong TimeFirst TimeSevenGuidanceWowGrandchildrenExhaustingParentalMy GrandchildrenSeven DaysParental Guidance Author:Billy Crystal
“I've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.” YoungDaughterMy DaughterGrandchildrenForbidden Author:Bette Midler
“[When I'll be old I see myself] as a world champion, on a big farm with an Italian-style, big family with a whole bunch of grandchildren. And the foundations for that I have already laid!” WorldWholeBigsStyleFoundationBunchChampionItalianFarmsGrandchildrenWorld ChampionsBig Families Author:Bernie Ecclestone
“Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and focus and adherence to the values that we care about will result in a better future for our children and our grandchildren.” IfsMayChildrenWarSometimesShowsSeemsCareValuesResultsFocusProgressDeterminationOur ChildrenPostsGermanyGrandchildrenBetter FutureAdherencePost WarStrength And Determination Author:Barack Obama
“I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or time and memory and how they look when you get to be in your sixties, and I thought, "Well, yes but people are dying every day in Baghdad," I wouldn't feel guilty about not writing about Baghdad if I didn't have any good ideas about how to write about it.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsWritingWellsLooksIdeasMemoriesMiddleDyingObsessionGuiltyCaliforniaGood IdeasSixtyGrandchildrenOaksBaghdadMy Grandchildren Author:Robert Hass
“I think that ... none of [the candidates in he third party] have the courage to do what's right for the country. And I have, now, two grandchildren, which I didn't have before. I'd like to leave them a better world.” ThinkingWorldTwoCountryPartyThirdsCandidatesGrandchildrenThird Parties Author:Michael Bloomberg
“If we do not get our act together and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, there is a real question as to the quality of the planet that we are going to be leaving our children and our grandchildren.” IfsChildrenRealTogetherEnergyQualityPlanetsOur ChildrenLeavingFuelGrandchildrenFossilsFossil FuelReal Questions Author:Bernie Sanders
“If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.” PeopleIfsMenWritingSaidImportantWould BeBeautifulDiesCausesWhitePlanetsBrotherBrownWhite ManGrandchildrenAbolitionistJohn Brown Author:Dick Gregory
“I look at [Toronto] and think well, perhaps my grandchildren will someday look at this stuff with the sort of appreciation I once held for Art Deco. Although I've come to find Art Deco quite creepy too.” ThinkingWellsLooksArtStuffAppreciationSomedayGrandchildrenCreepyTorontoMy GrandchildrenArt Deco Author:William Gibson
“I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.” PeopleThinkingChildrenAmericaFatherJusticeRightsGenerationsEqualInspiredCivil RightsLegacyTransformedWomens RightsGrandchildrenChildren And GrandchildrenEqual Justice Author:Caroline Kennedy
“I hope I can tell you what happened in Europe and support you in your fight to preserve freedom for your children and your grandchildren, and tell them what I believe the Islamic threat is, and to discuss it with anybody - also people who don't agree with me. This is democracy. This is civil society. We should cherish that.” PeopleShouldBelieveChildrenI CanFightingI BelieveSupportDemocracyHappenedEuropeOur ChildrenAgreeThreatPreservesYour ChildrenIslamicCherishGrandchildrenCivil SocietySupport You Author:Geert Wilders
“The world is not going to change overnight, nor in my lifetime, nor in my grandchildren's lifetime. But it will change, if we change, not for a day or a year, but for a lifetime. Yes, it will change, if we change.” IfsWorldYearsLifetimeGrandchildrenMy Grandchildren Author:Tom Regan
“Getting the economy back on its feet is properly viewed as an investment in future prosperity. When businesses and consumers confront attractive investment opportunities, often the only way to seize them is by borrowing. The same is true for government. Contrary to the pronouncements of critics of economic stimulus, these investments will not impoverish our grandchildren. Continuing to allow the economy to languish in recession is the surest way to impoverish them.” WayGovernmentOpportunityEconomyFeetEconomicInvestmentCriticsProsperityContraryConsumersAttractiveContinuingGrandchildrenStimulusRecessionsBorrowingLanguishFuture Prosperity Author:Robert H. Frank
“Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.” WantLongMatterStarsWalksGoneForeverFameHollywoodLegacyAncestorGrandchildrenFleetingGreat Grandchildren Author:Tracy Morgan
“I would love to leave my children and grandchildren a nicer world than the one I am going to leave them. But bearing in mind that I was born in the world of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, the legacy I leave them might not be as terrible as the legacy my parents and grandparents left to me.” WorldMindChildrenMightLeftParentBornTerribleLegacyMy ChildrenGrandparentGrandchildrenChildren And GrandchildrenParents And GrandparentsFranco Author:Amos Oz
“Donald Trump is a man who just absorbs information and people and experiences. And I've witnessed him firsthand with his five children, his 10 year old son, his wife Melania, who's just an incredible first lady for all of us, amazing. God bless her, we're all very luck to have her leadership, as well. And I've witnessed him with his four adult children and his eight grandchildren. He's a family man.” PeopleMenYearsFirstsWellsChildrenFiveFourWifeInformationSonTrumpAdultsLuckIncrediblesEightBlessGrandchildrenGod BlessFirst LadyFamily ManAdult Children Author:Kellyanne Conway
“The Mayas, our grandparents, always said; every human being occupies a small piece of time. Time itself is much longer, and because of this they always said that we must care for this earth while we are on it because it will be part of our children and the children of our grandchildren. They know that life is short, that it can end so soon, and that if one gets lost on the way, others will come to take their place.” IfsKnowsWayHumansChildrenSaidEndsCareEarthLife IsLostHuman BeingsPiecesOur ChildrenGrandparentGrandchildrenLife Is ShortSmall Pieces Author:Rigoberta Menchu
“I think wars, climate change, all that stuff is going to move people. And so I wanted to say, "What if the migration apocalypse occurs and it isn't an apocalypse at all?" Maybe we will still find ways to be happy and for our children and grandchildren to thrive and the world to move on.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayChildrenStillsWarWantedMovingStuffOur ChildrenClimateClimate ChangeThriveWhat IfApocalypseGrandchildrenMigrationChildren And Grandchildren Author:Mohsin Hamid
“When I am playing with my grandchildren, that brings glory to God. So I don't think glory to God is simply serious. I do think that there is glory of God in laughter.” ThinkingSeriousGloryLaughterGrandchildrenGlory Of GodMy Grandchildren Author:Rick Warren
“I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.” PeopleThinkingKindPersonsLostLossCareersSawsMarriedLowsTrendsGrandchildrenNew MusicGreat GrandchildrenLow Points Author:Lena Horne
“I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they would learn about history, they would learn about human nature. They would learn about, "Can the individual make a difference or is it great forces?" Tolstoy is always battling with those large issues. Mostly, a whole world would come alive for them through that book.” IfsThinkingWorldHumansBookWarWholeMightReadingIndividualForceDifferencesIssuesAliveHuman NatureRussiaWhole WorldMaking A DifferenceGrandchildren Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Historically, girls have not been encouraged to be scientists, to be explorers, and there's a social kind of constraint, of course. Having the responsibility, a disproportionate part of the responsibility, for caring for families, caring for children. I know this challenge from firsthand experience because I have three children and four grandsons.And some of the time I have spent as a scientist and as an explorer has meant choosing to not be with my children and grandchildren as much as I might otherwise have done had I not been a scientist, an explorer.” KindChildrenDoneGirlChallengesResponsibilityScientistCaringMy ChildrenGrandchildrenChildren And GrandchildrenGrandson Author:Sylvia Earle
“I'm still learning....learning from my great grandchildren and everyone around me. I would advise others to keep trying, stop and listen.” TryingGrandchildrenAdviseGreat Grandchildren Author:Leah Chase
“Being a grandmother is a wonderful thing, so my advice is skip the children. Go straight to the grandchildren.” ChildrenWonderfulAdviceGrandmotherGrandchildrenSkip Author:Alison Gopnik
“One of the three big factors that count against war in the relationship between China and the U.S. are, first, nuclear weapons and even a condition of mutual assured destruction. Secondly, one's got two economies that have become so deeply interlaced that a war between the U.S. and China would leave Wal-Marts empty and Chinese factories producing for nothing. Thirdly, climate - if between the two of us, we keep doing what we're doing, we can create a climate in which our grandchildren won't be able to live.” WarEconomyEmptyDestructionChineseMutualNuclear WeaponsGrandchildren Author:Graham T. Allison
“If you're outside the path of totality eclipse, if there's any way you can get into the path of totality for the eclipse, do it. Take the day off. Take the kids out of school. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for most people to see a total eclipse, and it is one of the grandest sights in all of nature. It's something you'll always remember, and you'll pass stories of it onto your grandchildren.” PeopleKidsSchoolRememberOpportunityPathGrandchildrenEclipse Author:Fred Espenak
“We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and other destructive behaviors. But as we move from childhood to adulthood, we find the peer pressure changes. Daniel 3:2 notes "the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces" were there. I'm sure more than one of them thought they needed to keep their job with all of its benefits. Not much has changed in two-and-a-half millennia.” WorldChildrenMovingChildhoodChangedJudgingDrugBehaviorOur ChildrenDrinkingAdulthoodGrandchildrenPeer PressureChildren And Grandchildren Author:O. S. Hawkins
“I'm frustrated with the fact that it's harder to remember things now because I can so easily find them on the Web. I hate the way I have to work at reading; a pastime that once brought nothing but relaxation and joy. I hate the Internet's addictive qualities, as I watch my own grandchildren - whose brains are still being developed - want to be on devices so much. I hate what technology bodes for our culture, but even more for the body of Christ.” RememberJoyHateCultureReadingChristBrainQualityTechnologyI HateFrustratedGrandchildrenRelaxation Author:Tricia Rhodes
“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.” CultureLanguageParentNovelLegacyGrandparentGrandchildren Author:Amos Oz
“I'll have that inscribed on my damn grave. I still get stopped for being Lois Lane, and I'm 60 and have two grandchildren. So it's kind of weird.” KindGrandchildren Author:Margot Kidder
“When you have a baby you start thinking of death cuz' you see the opposite of life. I've calmed down now but for the first or two years, I kept thinking: "Oh my God, if I die what's going to happen to the child?" And you realise how vulnerable they are, but how critical your own life is because they're so dependent on you. You do feel your own mortality. I kept saying to myself: "OK, when they're 18, I'll be 'x'; so if they get married at 30, I'll be'x'will I get to see grandchildren?" So, since they've been born I've been thinking about death the whole time.” ThinkingChildrenBabyMarriedVulnerableMortalityRealisingGrandchildren Author:Gurinder Chadha
“It was time to come up here and retire with my wonderful husband, and my children and my grandchildren, and make that change. I'm not good at hanging on. When I make a decision to cut it off, I have to cut it off completely. I'm not good at, "Oh, I'll stick around and consult a little bit." I'm not good at that and I don't want to do that. I don't think you get anywhere doing that. I mean, I don't, although other people might. But that's not my personality. It's not my id. I have to make the break and be a good sport and adjust to it.” PeopleThinkingMeanChildrenSportsDecisionBreakCuttingWonderfulPersonalityHusbandMy ChildrenRetiringGrandchildrenMy Grandchildren Author:Nicolas Ghesquiere
“I'm not currently into economic textbooks, but my grandchildren tell me that the book by Gregory Mankiw, former head of the white house council of economic advisers is a model of intelligence and clarity. Why not try that one.” TryingBookHouseEconomicClarityGrandchildrenMy Grandchildren Author:John C. Bogle
“Our children and grandchildren visit us regularly in the Élysée Palace . The little ones are constantly running around outside in the garden. The first time they were intimidated by this place, but now they move around here totally normally. I think it is important that people really live in this place.” PeopleThinkingChildrenImportantRunningMovingFirst TimeGardenOur ChildrenGrandchildrenIntimidatedChildren And Grandchildren Author:Emmanuel Macron
“When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94, which is a very long life in Cambodia, I saw how important it was that she was in a community with my sisters, brothers and all grandchildren were so involved in her life. I liked that experience so much more than visiting my sister-in-law's grandparents in a nursing home. It's about looking at a community through your window versus being part of a community that's alive, that is youthful and old and hungry and smelly and loud, where everything is vibrant and colorful.” LongImportantHomeAgeCommunityBrotherWindowHungryGrandmotherMatureMy SisterGrandparentGrandchildrenMy GrandmotherLong LifeNursingColorfulSmelly Author:Loung Ung
“I believe we owe it to our children and grandchildren to stay engaged and to help spread liberty and to help reformers.” BelieveChildrenHelpingI BelieveLibertyOur ChildrenSpreadGrandchildrenChildren And Grandchildren Author:George W. Bush
“I don't think that within a certain amount of time we can get rid of all nuclear weapons. But I do believe that, step by step, we could get others to join us. I call it going up the mountain. We can get to the top eventually, but we have to get to base camp first. Right now, we are in the valley. So we have a long way to go, but maybe our children or our grandchildren will see the top of the mountain.” ThinkingBelieveChildrenLongMountainOur ChildrenNuclear WeaponsGrandchildren Author:Sam Nunn
“People ask me almost every day, "Why? You are successful, you have kids, you have grandchildren, so why?" Feminist women are seen as unsatisfied. But all women in the world, if they are well aware of inequality, are unsatisfied women. They don't have the same rights as men, and there is no freedom until there is equality between men and women.” PeopleMenWorldKidsSuccessfulMen And WomenFeministInequalityAsk MeGrandchildrenUnsatisfied Author:Maria Teresa Horta
“I think oldest children have a different mentality or know that there were different expectations of them, and I was not only the oldest child - I was the oldest grandchild of 18 grandchildren. I definitely grew up feeling like there were a lot of people who expected me to do something. But it was a very conservative family, very conservative neighborhood. I'm talking mid- to late '60s when I was growing up there, and so if I had stayed in the Boston area, I think my life would have been radically different.” PeopleThinkingChildrenDifferentFeelingsGrowing UpExpectationsConservativeNeighborhoodMentalityGrandchildren Author:Susan Lyne