Wilford Brimley Quotes

As I celebrate life, I can't help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn't get to meet her grandchildren, but I'm determined to watch mine grow up.

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.

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

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

I did not realize how broken I was until I saw how broken Mama was.

When my husband Charles passed away in 2000, I took over as chair of our family's foundation. As I was mourning his loss, I also had to keep the foundation moving forward and to chart a course into what was then a very male-dominated philanthropic world.

I have 14 nieces and nephews.

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

I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

I have two grandchildren.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.

I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to.

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.

Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.

In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.