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It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us.
I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.
Going to India to do a film is not an everyday affair. I thought I would do that one movie to show my grandchildren when I am 60.
Turning the pages of a favourite book creates a very special bond with our grandchildren, but it's not just an indulgent pleasure.
We are in a struggle against the forces of radical Islam and terror, which must be defeated for our children and our grandchildren.
I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.
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.
I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.
What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?
I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.
Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle
We need to protect our environment and make our economy more sustainable so that we can pass on a better world to our grandchildren.
That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives.
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.
I have loved being a step-mum to Brian's children. We have a great relationship, and it's lovely to spend time with the grandchildren.
I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.
I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?
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.
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
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.
My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.
My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever.
My paternal poppa, Alec, was a taxi driver and swimming coach. He taught all his grandchildren how to swim and loved all kinds of sport.
Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
I'm still learning....learning from my great grandchildren and everyone around me. I would advise others to keep trying, stop and listen.
The easiest thing that is done, unfortunately, in Washington is to spend money today and send the bill to our children and grandchildren.
By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!
Grandchildren can be annoying - how many times can you go: "And the cow goes moo and the pig goes oink"? It's like talking to a supermodel.
My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.
My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.
As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well - and for each of God's children.
What we want to do is to give all children and grandchildren of Holocaust victims the opportunity to become Austrian citizens if they want to.
My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.
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.
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
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.
The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.
Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.
My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.
In South Africa, there is only one name that every child knows, every leader invokes, and every grandparent tells their grandchildren about. Madiba.