Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rorty

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

Reba McEntire

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.

Werner Herzog

Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.

Sam Bush

I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have been fortunate enough to see multiple generations of families come see my shows.

Zhang Xin

I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500 or 1,000 years ago. The buildings of those days were miracles. We don't perform such miracles today. So we should be a little more modest. For my part, I'll be glad to show one of my buildings one day to my grandchildren and say: I'm proud of that.

James Hansen

I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.

Lynn Redgrave

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

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.

Katie McGrath

I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist.

Roald Dahl

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

Rodney Dangerfield

At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

Zach Galifianakis

I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.

William Feather

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Alex Thompson

I'm just kind of exploring. My grandfather is an electrician and I kind of help him out in the summers. My grandpa showed me just about everything.

Odette Annable

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

Shizuka Kamei

Does reform mean picking on grandpa and grandma?

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

Pope Francis

We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents

Robert Plant

I'm a grandfather now.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.

Yuvraj Singh

We have started calling him grandfather.

Kellan Lutz

I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Grandfather informs me that is not possible.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

Novak Djokovic

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

Nelly Furtado

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.