Sally Field Quotes

Well, you know, my wife and I have eight children. We have now 19 grandchildren.

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

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

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.

Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.

I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

When you're around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you're supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

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.

My mother would have been so crazy about my grandchildren. She was a fabulous grandmother, and she would have been absolutely crazed as a great-grandmother. I miss that part of her.

It is great seeing the fruits of your labor. The joy I have in watching my daughters with their kids is great, because they're doing a wonderful job, and the kids are fantastic.

My greatest production is my children. Then, to see my grandbabies is the gravy.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

I'm blessed with four great children and eight grandchildren.

I can't wait to be a grandfather.

I wish my grandparents were around to see my children.

The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.

That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children of folks who really loved each other, hard to get out from under that skin because sometimes it's just so comfortable you don't want to have to develop your own.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of no better tribute to them than giving them some.... I can't help thinking that the cycle is not complete until I can introduce them to a child of their child. And I can think of no better comfort when they are gone than to know that something of them lives on, not only in me but in my children.

Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you're confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, "How did you ever bring up me?"