Grandmother Quotes · Page 8

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

— Koichi Tanaka

I'm proud of my hands; they look like my grandma's.

— Serinda Swan

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

— London Breed

It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion.

— Sasha Velour

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

I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do.

— Andy Hallett

A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her…

— Elisabeth Elliot

My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.

— Angie Thomas

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

— Fred D'Aguiar

My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years…

— Maya Angelou

My grandmother has passed away, but she was sanctified. I would not want anyone in the church to judge her because of…

— Da Brat

My grandmother was one of the most loving, caring, and supportive people I've ever met.

— Adam Cole

I had a grandmother who was really strong, who doted on me, who wanted to make sure that I didn't go off…

— Carl Hart

My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full…

— Lucrecia Martel

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule…

— Charlaine Harris

She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run…

— Anne Ursu

When I was 16, we get kicked out of our house because my mother and my father were separated, so we didn't…

— Demian Maia

I was about 10 when I first began to sing. My mother had been away for three weeks, and I learned 'Don't…

— Roisin Murphy

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our…

— Kerry Washington

My grandmother had a couple of strange books published by the Woolfs. I didn't know her - she was dead by the…

— Harry Enfield

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a…

— Steve Garvey

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

I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one…

— Will Smith

My grandmother was very fashion-forward and had these very structured, beautiful bags, and now, that's why I have very expensive taste in…

— Becca Tobin

My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father…

— Karan Johar

I remember one day I came home and shouted to my grandmother, "Grandma, Sarah is pregnant!" Poor Sarah! For weeks before I…

— Elie Wiesel

Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on…

— Julia Quinn

“In those years when their mother disappeared into herself, and old Mrs Jeffrey next door turned into Frannie, their honorary grandmother, Alice…

— Liane Moriarty

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

My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of…

— Rose Quiello

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

My grandmother was a big Elvis fan, and I am, too, because she played Elvis, and she would keep me all the…

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

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