Grandmother Quotes · Page 12

I grew up until I was seven in Jamaica with my grandmother, who I still think of as the greatest person I…

— Linford Christie

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

— Miguel de Cervantes

There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.

— Laura Carmichael

I was born in Mumbai and raised in Mangalore at my grandmother's home which had a farm with animals.

— Srinidhi Shetty

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

— Jilly Cooper

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

— Lauren Alaina

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

— Sarah Ballantyne

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

— Karin Slaughter

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers…

— Marina Warner

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters,…

— Rosemary Mahoney

I'm certainly old enough to be a grandmother. I think it's interesting that it should be an issue, that being seen as…

— Lesley Sharp

Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the…

— Jody Williams

The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was…

— Flannery O'Connor

There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like…

— George Brandis

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing…

— Anonymous

My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was…

— Mavis Staples

I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm…

— Danny Pino

I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy.…

— Robin Tunney

“She heard hearts bounce, tears brewing, and breath going backward, but nobody said a word. By the sorrow and loss and sweetness…

— Peter S. Beagle

“You are a beacon for us. One of the most powerful." "I'm not," I say softly. "Not anymore." Smiling, my grandmother presses…

— Carolyn MacCullough

I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother.…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I was always a person on my mother's hip in the kitchen. My mom really wanted her kids at her side as…

— Rachael Ray

Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of…

— Charles Bukowski

If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If…

— Zadie Smith

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

— Henny Youngman

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

— Roy Robson

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 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

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

— Margaret Mead

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

— Jill Scott

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

— Tulsi Gabbard

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

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

— Sisqo

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

— Mala Naidoo

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

— Arvind Ethan David

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

— Kevin Gates