I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother…

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.

— Tina Turner

I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and praying over…

— Lorraine Toussaint

so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she…

— John Irving

I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough…

— Roald Dahl

My grandmother said it very simply: "If you don't like dogs, you don't like humans, and vice versa." I really believe that.

— Veronika Varekova

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right…

— Patrick Schwarzenegger

Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.

— Joan Bauer

My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the…

— Mark Ronson

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

— Chris Ware

“What I've learned, Mia, and what my grandmother always said, is that the whole point is wishing and remembering - not if what you…

— Melissa Senate

“But no matter,” Grandmother said. “Let’s let small-minded people live within the confines of their small-minded assumptions while the rest of us carry on…

— Ingrid Paulson

“I can dive", Sophia said. "Do you know what it feels like when you dive?" Of course I do," her grandmother said. "You let…

— Tove Jansson

“There are two ways to respond when life hands you something unpleasant,” the grandmother said, smiling down at the infant in her lap. “You…

— Cynthia Hand

“My Grandmother Bella would say in Yiddish, "Gouta Zeh,Gouta Zeh,Let The Other One Be Right!" My Italian friend Nick's Grandmother said,"It is A Better…

— Grandma Bella and Belli

“Raz i’Syul,” she explained. “The Grandmother said in the old desert tongue it means ‘Child of the Sun.’ It’s what a lot of people…

— Bryce O'Connor