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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. Billy Graham

Legacy, Other, Pass

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

Happy, May, Question

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren. Barbara Bush

Children, Most, Marvelous

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me. Alexandra Stoddard

My Life, Grandmother, Bring

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. - Lois Wyse

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. Lois Wyse

Generation, Lines, Dots

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

Reason, Common Enemy, Along

I want my children and my grandchildren to live in a world with clean air, pure drinking water, and an abundance of wildlife, so I've chosen to dedicate my life to wildlife conservation so I can make the world just a little bit better. Bindi Irwin

My Life, Air, Abundance

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better. Mitt Romney

Voice, Nation, Telling

I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself; we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today. Lois Lowry

Through, Compare, I Remember

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too. Sylvia Earle

Love, Sound, Kinds

My children were educated in what were then Chinese schools, and they learned English as a subject. But they made up when they went to English-language universities. So they didn't lose out. They had a basic set of traditional Confucian values. Not my grandchildren. Lee Kuan Yew

Values, Subject, Had

All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way. Mary Berry

Birthday, Saturday, Mum

I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren. Hugo Chavez

Love, Corn, Your

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life. Alexandra Paul

I See, Overpopulation, Issue

I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy. Isabel Allende

Love, Husband, Happier

As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option. Ta-Nehisi Coates

Shoulders, Victories, Fought

With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same. Kevin Whately

Love, Children, Same

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal. Nicki Minaj

College, Wealth, Providing

I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one. Joanna Lumley

Love, Own, Day One

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities. William J. Clinton

Away, I Think, Globally

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren. Michael Morpurgo

Tell, Blank, By The Time

That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives. Helen Garner

Living, Lives, Having

We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it. Jeff Merkley

Clean Energy, Shape

My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren. Nancy Pelosi

Thought, Some, Entitled

President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve. Benjamin Netanyahu

Aim, Achieve, Ahead

If I don't make heritage visible and the strength of mother tongue important for my grandchildren, it scares me that they might say in 20 years from now, 'Well, it is rumoured that we used to be Africans long ago.' And in many urban areas, it's already happening. Hugh Masekela

Strength, Tongue, Used

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