Grandmother Quotes · Page 42

My mother and grandmothers could never have lived my life; my father and my grandfathers could never have imagined it. But they…

— Hillary Clinton

They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.

— Camara Laye

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

— Edwidge Danticat

I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table.

— Taylor Negron

Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

— Rita Moreno

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

— Margaret Mead

I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.

— Neal Shusterman

My grandmother is the black-sheep rebel of the family.

— David Andrew Sinclair

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the…

— Henning Mankell

Maybe our grandmothers weren't as stupid as we thought. The family, volunteer work, religion, shaping the hearts and minds of the next…

— Myriam Miedzian

People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning…

— Quentin Crisp

She [Eleanor Roosevelt]wants a life of her own. Her grandmother could have been a painter. Her grandmother could have done so much…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

My earliest memory is going to live with my grandmother when I was four. My mum told me she was going on…

— Davina McCall

I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between…

— Matthea Harvey

My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My…

— Gisele Bundchen

I'm a grandmother.

— Jill Biden

What kind of grandmother am I? I'm a 'three-dessert' grandmother. I'm a 'let's just skip the bath tonight, honey, watch another video'…

— Judith Viorst

I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

— Carol Burnett

When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a…

— Laura Esquivel

He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago…

— Ray Bradbury

With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to…

— Nathan Myhrvold

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my…

— Louise Leakey

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

— William Shakespeare

I don't think I'm more politically-based as much as socially-based. My grandmother died on February 29th, and she kept all of my…

— Killer Mike

My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant -…

— Jill Scott