Grandmother Quotes · Page 20

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

— Margaret Mead

I get migraines. I've had them all my life; so has my dad. So did his grandmother, although back then they called…

— Naomi Alderman

These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.

— Tulsi Gabbard

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

— Joe Bob Briggs

You, your grandmother, the chairman----YOU'RE ALL ABUNCH OF FRIGGIN' IDIOTS!!!" ~Haruhi

— Bisco Hatori

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

— Romany Malco

“It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.”

— Barbara Cameron

“Elsa thinks about how Granny used to say, 'You have standards and I have double standards, and so I win.”

— Fredrik Backman

The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over…

— Paula Deen

My grandmother used to say before you moan about the muck on someone else's glasses make sure you're not on about the…

— John Hegley

More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's…

— Neil Peart

And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and…

— Gloria Estefan

I seriously love to cook ... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid I used to help her make handmade…

— Bradley Cooper

I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing... But…

— Amy Tan

I got into the situation where I was extreme right. It turned out that my mother is Jewish, my grandmother is Jewish.…

— Csanad Szegedi

I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the…

— Gertrude Kasebier

There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and…

— Edwidge Danticat

My grandmother was German. She didn't teach any of her children German. She really wanted them to be American. And now, she's…

— Dakota Fanning

It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I…

— Jancee Dunn

“A woman who might have been a good mother and a good grandmother, had not a quirk of nature put her in…

— Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson

Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the…

— M. Russell Ballard

I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother,…

— James Turrell

I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set…

— Tamara Jenkins

“My grandmother is over eighty and she still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.”

— Henny Youngman

When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

— Karin Slaughter

“What if, what if, what fucking if. If my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a fucking bus,”

— Roy Robson

As a little girl, I remember always wanting my grandmother to make blackberry cobbler for me. I'm obsessed with it.

— Lauren Alaina

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

— Jilly Cooper

“Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognizeas food. There”

— Sarah Ballantyne

As a kid, I always used to make clothes. My grandmother made everything with me - she taught me how to knit.

— Maria Cornejo

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

— Elena Roger

Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it.

— Jihae

“I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know…

— Augusten Burroughs

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

— Svetlana Alexievich

When I was growing up, my grandmother cooked every day. She is the best chef ever.

— Baron Davis

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate…

— Kevin Gates

There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though… This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently.

— Arvind Ethan David

“She was home, the passage walls, memorabilia of Ben's life, past and present, welcomed her like a doting grandmother.”

— Mala Naidoo

My mother and father were middle-class, and my grandmother lived in the ghetto, so I used to spend my summers at her…

— Sisqo