“ It's like having a cobra in the nursery with your grandchildren. You get rid of the cobra or you won't have any grandchildren. ”
- Theodore Hesburgh- Copy
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“ We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it. ”
- Christopher Dodd- Copy
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“ I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris. ”
- Paris Hilton- Copy
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“ I have to do it. I have no choice, because I've got five grandsons and one son. I wake up thinking that could happen to them. ”
- Ruby Dee- Copy
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“ You know what I told those doctors?... I told them you, I'm going to see my grandsons play in the opener against Baylor. ”
- Larry Chase- Copy
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“ The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ”
- Margaret Junkin Preston- Copy
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“ Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. ”
- G. Norman Collie- Copy
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“ Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy — the mother. ”
- Claudette Colbert- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky- Copy
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“ Shame on us if 100 or 200 years from now our grandchildren and great-grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by global warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?'. ”
- Joseph Lieberman- Copy
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“ This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty to bequeath it to our grandchildren in better shape than however we found it. We have a long way to go and we're not getting any younger.Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and thank you, dear reader… ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
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“ I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world. ”
- George Voinovich- Copy
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“ Do you know how many of my songs I own? Not a single one. Out of 16 albums, not a single one. They won't belong to my children. I won't be able to pass them on to my grandchildren. They belong to someone else. Why? It's my music. ”
- Prince- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Joe Manchin III- Copy
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“ There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren. ”
- Mitch McConnell- Copy
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“ The integrity of the moment… it is going to be scrutinised as a piece of narrative drama for as long as that film or DVD or mechanical recording lasts… you are committing yourself, in those moments, the possibility of being heard by your great great great grandchildren. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see. This is the secret discipline. It is a refusal to let the creative act be dissolved away in immediate sense experience, and a stubborn commitment to the future of our grandchildren… ”
- Ruben Alves- Copy
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“ It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them… ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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