Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother…

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvellous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

— Anonymous

Even the humble black grandmother, who sings in the church choir and struggles to raise a grandchild abandoned to her care, must assert ideological…

— Shelby Steele

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

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

— Art Linkletter

My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and…

— M. Night Shyamalan

Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going…

— Rose Leslie

My maternal grandmother was the longest-lived of my grandparents. She migrated to Australia in her 80s and lived into her 90s. It was great…

— Nick Earls

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And,…

— Rudy Giuliani

The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the child's falling.…

— Anna Quindlen

When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94, which is…

— Loung Ung

“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust…

— Brett Ratner

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron…

— Lewis Mumford

Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

— Fernand Point

Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang…

— Charles Bukowski