Quotes about Grandkids

My charity is called 'Grand Kids.' People keep thinking it's 'Grandkids.' Votes: 4

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots! Votes: 4

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to. Votes: 4

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, 'No, it's for me.' Votes: 4

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me. Votes: 4

I have four children and I have seven grandkids. Votes: 2

I made the grandkids laugh. John Madden finally liked me! Votes: 2

Sarah Palin is Latina. Pay-leen. She has an infant and a grandkid the same age. Latina! Votes: 2

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on! Votes: 2

To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about. Votes: 2

My grandkids say, "Reality Bites." O.K., but it also challenges and rewards... I believe our best days are yet to come. Votes: 2

When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'People' magazine thought I was sexy!' Votes: 2

An 83-year-old male prostitute was arrested. Police say he only charged $20 an hour, but for most of that time, he just talked about his grandkids. Votes: 2

I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds. Votes: 2

I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life. Votes: 2

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution? Votes: 2

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies. Votes: 2

Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it. Votes: 2

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids. Votes: 2

I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me. Votes: 2

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living. Votes: 2

I worry about the future of this country for our kids and grandkids and America not being on the world stage and that vacuum being filled by the likes of Vladimir Putin. Votes: 2

Do I want Social Security to be there for my kids and my grandkids? Absolutely. Will I fight like a tiger to make sure that we protect Social Security? I absolutely will. Votes: 2

It was a scandal when I did French 'Playboy' in 2008, though I was never actually nude in it. I think it's really funny that I'll have a cover of 'Playboy' to show my grandkids. Votes: 2

What happens when you put all your money into your home? Everybody's going to want to move in, whereas rich people set money off for their great-great grandkids. They got money that's circling for itself. Votes: 2

I'm kind of crazy with karma. I really believe that everything you do revisits you, so, I'm really adamant about the kids seeing the grandparents, so like, I can see my grandkids, you know what I mean? Votes: 2

I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress. Votes: 2

It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in 'Alice in Wonderland' or a doll with grandma's dress, but then they also let me know they're bummed I didn't do any of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies. Votes: 2

It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life. Votes: 2

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future. Votes: 2

I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself. Votes: 2

How do you know someone is a grandparent? They've got milk stains on every shirt from burping babies. Their pants are worn out at the knees from crawling around giving pony rides. They have 2,842 pictures of the grandkids on their smart phone and not one photo of their spouse. Votes: 2

Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough. Votes: 2

So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we preserve them through fiction, through film, through comic books, and every other form of media we can possibly utilize to perpetuate the story of the great African-American people. Votes: 2

Ultimately, we have to decide, with the Legislature: Are we willing to take some bold steps to make us even more competitive in the future, competing in a global economy? I think Nebraskans are willing to listen to that discussion. They want an opportunity for their kids and grandkids to live here. Votes: 2

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!' Votes: 2

I'd like my grandkids to be able to watch PBS. But I'm not willing to borrow money from China, and make my kids have to pay the interest on that, and my grandkids, over generations, as opposed to saying to PBS, 'Look, you're going to have to raise more money from charitable contributions or from advertising.' Votes: 2

Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents. Votes: 2

I tell my kids and my grandkids, 'Never forget where you came from. Never forget your roots.' My grandkids, they didn't go through the hard times as much as other ones in our family did. One thing is to just never forget where you came from and you never forget that nothing is more important than your relationship with Jesus Christ. Votes: 2

What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who would pull out a picture of his grandkids from his wallet. For us, the factory would never do. And turning away from our birthright - our grandfather in the white socks - is the thing that ruined us. Votes: 2

On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date. Votes: 2

That's why I like to get out there, and get people to see the other side of Mitt, and know us in a different reflection when you see the family and how funny he is with the boys and with the grandkids. And you know, just what a super guy he is. That's part of what I am doing, is letting people see the other side of Mitt. Votes: 2

Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids. Votes: 0

I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain. Votes: 0

And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?' Votes: 0

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids. Votes: 0

Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us? Votes: 0

One day,I might be able to tell my grandkids I interviewed the last president of the United States. Votes: 0

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left. Votes: 0

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived." Votes: 0

I've got a feeling, you know, that pensioners talk in a very different way when their kids and grandkids, aren't around. Votes: 0

We don't think of ourselves as a dynasty. I really hope some of my grandkids will be actively involved in politics. Votes: 0

[My grandkids] are 5, 10, and 15. While they're young and still at home, I think it's all about learning the value of money. Votes: 0

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. Votes: 0

To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about. Votes: 0

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids. Votes: 0

On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids. Votes: 0

I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids. Votes: 0

Perhaps, one of our greatest challenges as a nation, as a people, as human beings making sure that our grandkids can live on this Earth. Votes: 0

Give me a strapless gown and a rhinestone-studded guitar and some 55-year-olds in my audience, along with their kids and grandkids. Don't give me 'boogie'! Votes: 0

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 "¦ you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods"¦ that's where we're headed. Votes: 0

[What's beautiful about my mother is] her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She's got a sparkle. Votes: 0

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?" Votes: 0

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple. Votes: 0

I have to be invested spiritually, emotionally, and psychologically to do theater. I can't do it to make a living. I have four kids, a couple of grandkids, and two mortgages. Votes: 0

Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up. Votes: 0

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids. Votes: 0

More often than not, my reference point is not the kids or the grandkids but myself when I was that age. I remember the days at Hartranft Elementary and Stewart Junior High in Norristown. Votes: 0