Quotes on Children And Grandchildren

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

For decades we have been living lives of abundance, with little regard for our natural resources or global health. But we are now facing hard choices in our energy policy. Future generations - my children and grandchildren, along with yours - will have to live with the decisions we make today. And so it is time for us to make some tough and - hopefully - smart choices regarding our energy use and production before it is too late.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

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.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

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.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

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 simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

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.

The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would be miserable stewards of creation. We would rob our own children and grandchildren.

A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what in God's name were they doing?" or they may look back and say: "how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?"

Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents?

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.