Grandmother Quotes · Page 13

In Brazil, you are very close to your family; we saw our cousins every weekend, and my grandmother lived with us.

— Morena Baccarin

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.'…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont…

— John Calipari

We've always sung. As I have become a grandmother and become older, of course you have less voice and you notice this…

— Princess Michael of Kent

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

— Junot Diaz

My grandmother, Erminia 'Minnie' Morocco, treated cookies like a form of currency.

— Chris Morocco

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody,…

— Richard Land

My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I…

— Eric Ripert

My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school…

— Willie Nelson

My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family…

— Anthony Jeselnik

My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what…

— Erykah Badu

My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the…

— Alan Huffman

I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me…

— Bibhu Mohapatra

“Oh Cecelia, you would have loved my grandmother, Miz Goodpepper said, dunking a cookie into her wine. She was so alive and…

— Beth Hoffman

Sometimes, when you walk by the home of the girl you love, you can see her standing by the window... She waves…

— Charles M. Schulz

My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was…

— Amor Towles

My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who…

— Mark Ronson

“Hazel squinted. “How far?” “Just over the river and through the woods.” Percy raised an eyebrow. “Seriously? To Grandmother’s house we go?”…

— Rick Riordan

I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on…

— T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

“I smoothed my grandmother’s starched white damask cloth over the battered pine harvest table in the dining room, and with my fingertips,…

— Mary Kay Andrews

I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight…

— Erica Jong

The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death…

— Philip Kitcher

The whole guilt thing of not feeling Mexican enough was a big deal, too. On the one hand, you have your grandmother…

— Matt de la Pena

When my stepmother had my sister, Katharine Hepburn dropped by to say hello. She came with George Cukor, who wasn't a star,…

— Tony Goldwyn

Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

I see traits of my body in my mother and grandmother, and it makes me proud. This shape isn't going anywhere.

— Nikki Bella

we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.

— Annie Fellows Johnston

My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the…

— Alice Hoffman

I hated my mom for not letting me play football as a kid. So when I have kids someday, I guarantee they'll…

— Anthony Jeselnik

I remember my grandmother drying wild coffee berries in the sun, then hulling and roasting them for her own cup of coffee…

— Rohan Marley

My paternal grandmother, Isabel, was a health nurse and a mother of four, and a grandmother of eight.

— Noah Reid

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

— Joan Bauer

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so…

— Robert Herjavec

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

— Gene Perret

“We’ll be back,” he said. I had to admire how well he controlled the abject terror in his heart. “I’ll be waiting,”…

— Ingrid Paulson

“The Earth is your Mother and Grandmother. When you walk on the Earth, you are making a prayer to her.”

— Burleigh Muten

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

— David Dinkins

My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.

— Jennifer Hudson

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

— Hunter Hayes

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

— John Milton