Grandmother Quotes · Page 20

As I grow older, I hope I can fully embody my grandmother's remarkable peace.

— Lizz Wright

When I was 5 years old, I told my grandmother I was going to play hockey in the Olympics. Fifteen years later,…

— Hilary Knight

“If he really Loved Grandmother, he should be the thing to be afraid of in the dark.”

— Thomas Harris

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

— Alice Walker

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody,…

— Richard Land

My grandmother, Erminia 'Minnie' Morocco, treated cookies like a form of currency.

— Chris Morocco

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

— Junot Diaz

We've always sung. As I have become a grandmother and become older, of course you have less voice and you notice this…

— Princess Michael of Kent

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were…

— Ruben Blades

Honestly, and seriously, I know I have to do a Telugu film. It was my grandmother's dream to see me in a…

— Swara Bhaskar

“["What happens to people when they die?" When she heard that, her grandmother made a sound that was not like a voice…

— Kaho Nashiki

“This was typical of Gran. She always found her granddaughter too thin. That gave her an excuse to pile up the food…

— Effrosyni Moschoudi

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing…

— Camryn Manheim

I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as…

— Kalup Linzy

My grandmother had always played show tunes from classic musicals at the piano when we were growing up, so that helped me…

— Colin Donnell

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a…

— Tyler Florence

That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex…

— Mirah

“She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother…

— Frederick Douglass

Darling Daddy, This is Rose. So flames went all up the kitchen wall. Saffron called the fire brigade and the police came…

— Hilary McKay

Both my parents, grandmother and all close relatives who met Diana liked her very much, and my parents and grandmother never objected…

— Hasnat Khan

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

— M. Night Shyamalan

“My grandmother, more than any other woman, was the standard bearer of Gardnerian beauty. Known as “The Black Witch” by our enemies,…

— Laurie Forest

At home - where my grandmother certainly had to deal with Donald more than my grandfather did because he was at work…

— Mary L. Trump

“She walks towards Karen and Karen feels a cool wind against her skin, and the grandmother holds out both of her knobby…

— Margaret Atwood

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont…

— John Calipari

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.'…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

— Hugo Chavez

In Brazil, you are very close to your family; we saw our cousins every weekend, and my grandmother lived with us.

— Morena Baccarin

My grandmother left an incredible legacy and mark on my life and my family.

— Julius Randle

“Theodore- Hello, Grandmother. You're looking more beautiful than ever. His grandma- You did have to inherit your looks from someone.”

— Jen Turano

My grandmother was a very charitable woman, and my mother grew up that way.

— Jason Derulo

My grandmother is from Martinique, so sometimes I'm ashamed that I don't speak Creole.

— Josephine Jobert

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

— Alex Borstein

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

— Tina Knowles

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

— Sue Kelly

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

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

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