Quotes About Grandchild

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

It's also a nodding truth that these close relationships are built one on one. Time alone with a grandchild is golden. The flow of love is unmediated because there are no distractions. Attention is complete.

I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?

feelings are nothing final or original; behind feelings there stand judgments and evaluations which we inherit in the form of . . . inclinations, aversions. The inspiration born of a feeling is the grandchild of a judgment—and often of a false judgment!—and in any event not a child of your own!

I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

It was a summer evening;Old Kaspar's work was done,And he before his cottage doorWas sitting in the sun;And by him sported on the greenHis little grandchild Wilhelmine.

First grandchild," says Thatcher. "There's never anything to match that feeling.

I am the eldest Sinclair grandchild. Heiress to the island, the fortune, and the expectations. Well, probably.

I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.

It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

Nothing beats that sloppy kiss of a six-month-old grandchild.

There I met my granddaughter for the first time. As I held her, I wanted to give her a gift. Surely I could come up with something very special for my first grandchild. Not the usual stuffed animals and outfits, but something she could use for the rest of her life. She should get a lasting gift from her grandfather. It came to me that I'd like to give her hope.

Our oldest grandchild has precisely Alice's coloring, which may be one reason I sometimes have trouble taking my eyes off her.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

wedding ceremony indicated a closeness between John and her. The old woman quite obviously doted upon her only grandchild. Had she made similar allowances for her wayward son?

As soon as Nicholas was born, my mother swore she'd rather see her daughters become Jehovah's Witnesses or pole dancers before she saw her first grandchild in daycare when my sister went back to work. I don't think it was originally the idea of daycare that didn't sit well with her but the fact that there, in a bassinet, was a fresh slate, a lump of clay that could be worked on and molded into the perfect child who had eluded her the first time around with her own daughters.

Then, wham! My first grandchild was born... I was jolted, blindsided by a wallop of loving more intense than anything I could remember or had ever imagined.

It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

Why had I chosen the path of the law? And why law of the kind that seemed to be connected to an unspoken family history? 'What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the secrets of others,' the psychoanalyst Nicolas Abraham wrote of the relationship between a grandchild and a grandparent. The invitation from Lviv was a chance to explore those haunting gaps.

That first scream, my lord, was indeed your daughter, my wife, and if you kill me, your grandchild will be quite without a father. Won't you come in?

In football there's passion so you have lifelong fans, they bring their sons up, their grandchild comes.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.