Grandmother Quotes · Page 6

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

— Art Linkletter

“Oh, Grandmother, what terribly big teeth you have!”

— Marissa Meyer

My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.

— Bernie Mac

When a child is born, so are grandmothers.

— Judith Ellen Levy

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.

— Zsuzsanna Budapest

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

— Cornelia Funke

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'

— Will Smith

My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

— Killer Mike

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

— Susana Martinez

I'm a grandmother, but I don't want to look like a grandmother. I still want to look sexy and sophisticated.

— Tina Knowles

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear…

— Alex Borstein

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

— Sue Kelly

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

— Djuna Barnes

When I look back now, as an adult, I'm able to see my mom and grandmother in a different way that I…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I was named after my paternal grandmother, my dadi. She died before I was born, which is why my parents named me…

— Amyra Dastur

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring…

— Alexandra Stoddard

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 wanted people to know that my grandmother was the reason why I did comedy in the first place. She pushed me…

— Jermaine Fowler

I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke,…

— Joanna Going

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

“I went to college. Got a master’s degree. Went to Quantico for training. Been chasing down bad guys.” She gave her grandmother…

— Kerrelyn Sparks

“THE STORY GOES THAT I sucked too avidly at my mother’s breast, and caused an abscess to bloom in the tender flesh…

— Michael Chabon

“I have lived an eloquent sufficiency, any more would have been a superfluous redundancy." My grandfather, Howard Creelman, Sr. always said this…

— Curt Creelman

“Not an hour after Olivia was found, Portia and her mother were in the family's ancient pickup truck, bumping along the dirt…

— Linda Francis Lee

My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up…

— Michelle Singletary

He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it…

— Jon McGregor

All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years?…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“I am a wife, mother, and friend, and soon to be grandmother, I still feel, understand, and am worthy of the love…

— Lisa Genova

My father is the harbinger of death and destruction. My grandmother the Great Destroyer. My mother is the goddess of the hunt.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.

— Lemmy

It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion.

— Sasha Velour

Well, my grandmother, she raised me in public housing.

— London Breed

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

— Michael Pollan

I believe my grandma is watching over me and I draw strength from that.

— Carl Froch

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.

— Jamie Foxx

My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

— Andrew Sean Greer

For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.

— Kara Swisher