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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

My mother is a Bahamian. My father is a Bahamian, as am I, ... And all that I am, I've received from them and a country that has today given me the opportunities, and to my grandchildren, that I have never dreamt of.

Sidney Poitier

I have only one brother, but both my parents had huge families. (One of my grandmothers had) 44 grandchildren. ... I have 60 first cousins.

Bonnie Brothers

Besides, I didn't have grandchildren in high school.

Jack Gilbert

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

People cruise around with their kids and their grandchildren - it's a family-type event.

David Rodgers

This is where grandparents can sit with grandchildren and equally enjoy what's going on.

Russ Smith

I like it best two months. For me that's enough [because] I have children and grandchildren. Some people stay six months.

Monique Caron

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

Jane Smiley

His children, his grandchildren were the light of his life.

Barbara Reilly

It wasn't fair that they keep charging us so much, ... I need the money for my grandchildren to buy milk, bread.

The Foundation

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.

Mary H. Waldrip

If you think you are close to your grandchildren when they are young, wait until they get a bit older and you will be even closer as you have a common enemy.

Robert Wibbelsman

I've got other grandchildren I can brag on.

Bill Dodd

She is very sweet. She always took care of her grandchildren. She took care of a lot of sick family members.

Carol Campbell

I didn't immediately pick up the grandchildren (because of concern for the stitches) but I felt pretty good.

Don Black

We have five children and seven grandchildren between us. But it winds up being the two of us, with a lot of help.

Richard Wax

I am beginning to educate grandchildren of children I taught.

Katherine Holcombe

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

Sparky Anderson

If this building is as ugly as I envision it, ... It will be ugly the day it opens and will still be ugly when our grandchildren look at it.

Richard Griffin

That meant a lot to him. He was extremely proud of his grandchildren.

Tom Stolhandske

They've been coming here for 20-some years. We knew their family before they had grandchildren, and now their granddaughter is in college.

Lan Chung

We thought it would help us put the children through college. That didn't happen, but it might put the grandchildren through.

Doris Jean

Our whole family came every year, and now our grandchildren are coming.

Sandy Johnson

Now I even have grandchildren in the Westbrook schools.

Chet Bialicki

That is money that could go to our children, our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren.

Patrick Bauer

I would have certainly let my children and grandchildren go on that bus.

Bill Sutton

I'd like to see (cancer) cured in my lifetime. We all have children or grandchildren and we'd like to see them live cancer free.

Michele Maffei

When I saw them, I saw my own daughter and my own grandchildren, and there was no other choice. There was nowhere for them to go.

Rev. Dean Vestal

In the next two days he will be visited by his family including his grandchildren and daughter.

Badia Aref

The deepest feeling I have is a sense of accomplishment that our children and grandchildren are safer and much more protected.

Mike Shea

She came to live with me in Albany. She really enjoyed that, she got to see some of the grandchildren.

Florence Back

That will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Daniel Walker

What we cannot have is grandparents competing with grandchildren for state resources.

Dirk Kempthorne

It's not my nature to just relax. But I have eight grandchildren now.

David Jordan

There are grandchildren everywhere. Children have needs all over this county. I know it becomes more important when it's your children . . .

Margaret Craft

I was visiting my grandchildren one day and realized I was feeding them my own product, Too Tarts, and it was not good for them.

Armand Hammer

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

David Attenborough

He's a family guy, and his family has all moved out of the area. He's very devoted to his grandchildren.

Coral Conner

My great, great grandchildren will still be living under this contract.

Sen. Vi Simpson

All my grandchildren had Indian outfits. Did they have a choice?

Maryellen Flynn

We're laying the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren.

Laura Bush

It's time. I want to spend more time with my wife, children and grandchildren.

Robert Zimmerman

Can your grandchildren stay with you, and for how long?

Frank Rathbun

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Eli Stanley Jones