A Day With Grandkids Quotes & Sayings

If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight. — Sun Tzu

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. — Charlie LeDuff

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others. — Simone Weil

And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?' — Christy Haubegger

I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues. — Beeban Kidron

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!' — Teddy Sears

Systemic causation must be taught if the effects of global warming are to be seriously understood. The — George Lakoff

My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day? — Nora Roberts

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors. — Plato

My sister had picked a gorgeous beach in northern Washington State called Gray's Harbor. — Elizabeth A. Reeves

Don't you see, Owen?"
"See what?"
"The day's over. — Victoria Schwab

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived." — Channing Tatum

Smile, it increases you face value. — Dolly Parton

all photographs are about death, really, and time: about preserving a moment in silver and chemicals, when life itself is never preserved, when every cell of everything is already decaying, and being replaced, and decaying again. The subject and the image coexist for the moment that the shutter opens and closes. And then the subject decays but the image lives on unchanged. — Emma Darwin

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion. — L.M. Montgomery

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living. — Hal Boyle