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There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.
Oct 1, 2025
The cars that our children and grandchildren will be driving in the future will be greener as a result of high-tech lessons learned.
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 like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.
The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.
My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.
What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren.
Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.
If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.
For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.
The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.
I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.
With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.
Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children and grandchildren is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs lifesaving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. If one of our children is threatened or harmed by violence, someone else's child will be responsible for the violent act. The good life for our own children can be secured only if a good life is also secured for all other people's children.
The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.
To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.
You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.
My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.
All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.
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.
Beautiful old people are works of art.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.