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My Grandchildren Quotes

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.
- Julie Andrews

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
- William Shatner

If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.
- David Attenborough

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.
- L M Montgomery

And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.
- Kurt Vonnegut

But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.
- Kurt Vonnegut

And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.
- Geraldine Ferraro

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.
- Sally Field

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
- Nelson Mandela

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

I have three adult children, and I have four grandchildren. I want to stop the deficits. I want to make sure that we're not passing on to my children and my grandchildren deficits and that we cannot repay and that they will have to repay and maybe they won't be able to repay them.
- Doug Hoffman

What a tragic tale! Why these stories for children always have to turn out so dreadfully is beyond me. I think if I ever tell it to my grandchildren, I will change the ending and have everyone live happily ever after. We are allowed to do that, are we not Mabel? To invent our own endings and choose joy over sorrow?
- Eowyn Ivey

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
- Erica Jong

I'm people wealthy. My grandchildren have grandchildren, some of whom are even older than me.
- Jarod Kintz

In 50 years, I'm going to tell my grandchildren, Back when I was growing up we didn't have teleportation devices. We actually had to walk to school. In the snow. And shoes hadn't even been invented yet.
- Jarod Kintz

Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.
- Sue Monk Kidd

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
- Astrid Lindgren

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.
- Margaret Mahy

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
- Reba Mcentire

I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through.
- Art Modell

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.
- Bob Newhart

I don't put off any time with my grandchildren. I don't put off a thing.
- Lynn Redgrave

I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
- Omar Sharif

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