Angela Bowie Quotes

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

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

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.

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

I don't want to be 50 years old and not know what's going on with my kids and my grandkids.

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

I just think, at my stage of life, becoming a new grandfather, it's about time I started to behave like a grandfather.

I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them.

Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.

Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true... I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

There's no real substitute for the care of the real mother.

I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun.

I think it would have been nice to have a family; it would be nice to have grandchildren.

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

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

I devote my whole life to my family, and that's the least I could do, because there's only one me and 14 of them. I have to give all my energy and all of me to my kids.

I have a very close relationship with my daughter.

I really embrace everything about my daughter.