Grandmother Quotes · Page 56

My grandmother was German. She didn't teach any of her children German. She really wanted them to be American. And now, she's…

— Dakota Fanning

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks…

— Arthur Rimbaud

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly…

— Maggie Stiefvater

My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy,…

— Carrie Ann Inaba

[My grandmother] was the assistant pastor at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward - my grandmother, Evie Goines. And so my mother…

— Mahershala Ali

My sister played the piano. She's two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got…

— Willie Nelson

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

— Marjane Satrapi

We actually have a small family. It's just my father and I and my grandmother, who lives in Tokyo. I cherish my…

— Apolo Ohno

When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that…

— Stephanie Beacham

[in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down…

— Christopher Moore

I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange…

— Gil Scott-Heron

On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room.…

— Debi Mazar

I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you…

— Maya Angelou

I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure…

— Marcus Samuelsson

If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but…

— William Monahan

My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to…

— Isabel Allende

I know the death of my grandmother acted as a catalyst to somehow turn something on because before 10 I didn't really…

— Tyler Henry

It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My…

— Trevor Noah

Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking…

— Marcus Samuelsson

I'd be sent down South in summertime to work with my grandmother in the field and working with cattle, chickens, beans and…

— Rob Morgan

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

— Jill Lepore

I was working in a church in Florida as a youth intern, which means I really didn't do much other than staple…

— Bart Millard

There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.

— James Patterson

My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.

— Prince William