Grandmother Quotes · Page 19

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

— Gene Perret

Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will…

— Will Smith

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

— Jean Kerr

“I love tables. And dancing. Oh, and I love table dancing, although Grandmother always says, "Wait until we're finished eating.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Too many men have died in the name of old age. I know, because my grandmother was one of them.”

— Jarod Kintz

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

— Mavis Staples

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a…

— Terry Tempest Williams

My great-grandmother taught my mom to cook and she passed down the recipes to me.

— Teresa Giudice

My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side…

— Marge Piercy

My grandmother, Angela, was the Fox family matriarch. She was magnetic but also wicked. She had this huge life force and was…

— Emilia Fox

I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in "The Word" and filled the atmosphere with worship. Though I developed my own personal…

— Aisha Hinds

My grandmother was from Panama. It's a very vibrant place, the Spanish influence is very apparent. It's interesting to see the contrast…

— Colin Jackson

I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop…

— Jodi Picoult

My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up…

— Padma Lakshmi

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in…

— Kamala Harris

One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

“She walks towards Karen and Karen feels a cool wind against her skin, and the grandmother holds out both of her knobby…

— Margaret Atwood

You could say I was born into entrepreneurship. My grandmother, who was from Sierra Leone, was left to raise four children in…

— Richelieu Dennis

Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used…

— Terry Pratchett

“The hearth is desolate. The children, the unconscious children, who once sang and danced in her presence, are gone. She gropes her…

— Frederick Douglass

It's painful to see people you love who are the leaders of your family, the strong matriarchs of your family, struggle in…

— Ritchie Torres

“What’s the harm in forgetting? What does remembering do? Kugel had read that the war in the Balkans was referred to as…

— Shalom Auslander

You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the…

— Terry Pratchett

My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When I came home from school,…

— Sue Hubbell

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had…

— Virgil Green

The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me.

— Todd Bridges

As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

— Mary Margaret McBride

[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

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

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

— Hugo Chavez

My grandmother left an incredible legacy and mark on my life and my family.

— Julius Randle

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

— Morena Baccarin

My grandmother was a very charitable woman, and my mother grew up that way.

— Jason Derulo

My grandmother is from Martinique, so sometimes I'm ashamed that I don't speak Creole.

— Josephine Jobert

“Theodore- Hello, Grandmother. You're looking more beautiful than ever. His grandma- You did have to inherit your looks from someone.”

— Jen Turano