Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rorty

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

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.

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.

Benjamin Spock

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

Bob Hope

YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.

Art Modell

I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through

Al Gore

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

Demetri Martin

Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.

E. Stanley Jones

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Andy Rooney

I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

Nina Totenberg

[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.

Ted Turner

Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.

Margaret Mitchell

So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

Margaret Mead

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

Maureen Forrester

I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.

Nikita Khrushchev

I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

Mort Kondracke

I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.

Isabel Allende

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Jay Leno

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

James Ellroy

In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics of victimization. Reparation wasn't in the language. Nobody thought about giving the great grandchildren of black slaves so much as $1.98. And all of a sudden the bombs hit, interventionism versus isolationism became a dead issue, and it was us-versus-them in a heartbeat.

Ian Somerhalder

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

Gloria Allred

I have two grandchildren.

Alexander Smith

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.

Adora Svitak

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.

Kurt Vonnegut

I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'