Grandmother Quotes · Page 18

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

— Gene Perret

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

— Stana Katic

Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.

— Jessica Simpson

I have friends who are Gent fans, and I always drive past their stadium when I go to see my grandmother.

— Jan Vertonghen

I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.

— Abi Morgan

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

— Chelsea Clinton

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

— Cassandra Wilson

My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

— Arnon Goldfinger

When I was in college, the bell tolled for us. Just as my grandmother, the woman who had cared for me all…

— London Breed

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took…

— Sky Ferreira

The only thing I knew would make my grandmother more proud than watching my TV courtroom was to see me dressed up…

— Robert Rinder

If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but…

— William Monahan

I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not…

— Chelsea Clinton

My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold…

— Paul Mooney

My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things…

— Tori Amos

My earliest memory is going to live with my grandmother when I was four. My mum told me she was going on…

— Davina McCall

What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and…

— Helen Fisher

I did marry, I did get pregnant, but as I was giving birth, my daughter and I almost died. We were rushed…

— Nancy Grace

If you'd asked me when I was younger what life would be like in my 50s, I'd probably have imagined someone like…

— Ruth Jones

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to…

— Bobby Knight

There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Small animals are a great problem. I wish God had never created small animals, or else that He had made them so…

— Tove Jansson

We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat. There was no ifs,…

— Michelle Obama

In this case [the Charlemagne Prize], I don't say (I was) forced, but convinced by the holy and theological headstrongness of Cardinal…

— Pope Francis

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and…

— Geoffrey Canada

My great grandmother, Martha, was hired at 11 years old to be a worker to people.

— Amybeth McNulty

“Nobody wants to leave what they know to go either to the unknown, or to grandmother’s house.”

— Jarod Kintz

Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

— Angela Carter

I definitely come from a line of strong women. It's not only like my mother and my grandmother, but my aunties too.

— Saweetie

I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table.

— Taylor Negron

My grandmother told me to be nice to everyone and always think about how you would feel if you were in their…

— Anonymous

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

— Rita Rudner

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

— Colin Firth

My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm…

— Kirsten Dunst

My entire family is from Palakkad, and my grandmother grew up in Kerala, as did my mom.

— Vidya Vox

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

— Vivien Leigh

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

— Gene Perret

Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family…

— Labrinth

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

— Steven Adler

“the earth is our grandmother and that technology has become our mother and that they both hate each other.”

— Sherman Alexie