Grandmother Quotes · Page 8

For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.

— Kara Swisher

My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.

— Jamie Foxx

Well, my grandmother, she raised me in public housing.

— London Breed

It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion.

— Sasha Velour

I believe my grandma is watching over me and I draw strength from that.

— Carl Froch

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

— Michael Pollan

I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.

— Gene Perret

I have been singing since the time I was two. My mom says I would sing Gujarati songs with my grandmother when…

— Ileana D'Cruz

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find…

— Robert Breault

My grandmother's mother was from near Naples, so I love Italy, but I feel completely Argentinian.

— Paulo Dybala

My grandmother really wanted to see me become a singer, but she passed away before I became one.

— Jeongyeon

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

— Robert Breault

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like…

— Parker Posey

Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.

— Martine Leavitt

My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent…

— Cheryl Ladd

“She’d just seen her dead grandmother and had a lovesick warlock on her lawn. The last thing she needed was to worry…

— Michelle M. Pillow

“Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic…

— Gregory Benford

You don’t have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I’d pit my grandmother…

— Nadia Giosia

“The corners of her mouth turned up in a wry smile. “Better and better. Your grandmother’s looks and your grandfather’s brains. A…

— Angela Misri

The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister.…

— Pablo Sandoval

My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in…

— Carol Burnett

When I was 10 or 11, my grandmother had a scarf. It was black, but a long one. I used to wrap…

— Hassan Nasrallah

“And she would feel that sharp loneliness she had felt every long evening since she was a child. It was the kind…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Angelina told Ahmed that there came a time when her grandmother began to call on God to end her life, as she…

— Mouloud Benzadi

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an…

— Lucy Alibar

“God, I was just six years older than you are now. That’s terrifying.” She raised her shoulder, nudging my head. “Please don’t…

— Rachel Hawkins

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled…

— Jill Scott

My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then…

— Ice Cube

I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to…

— Paula Deen

I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to…

— Csanad Szegedi

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative…

— Kristina McMorris

You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know.

— Lidia Bastianich

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

— Margaret Deland

I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all…

— Richard Flanagan

“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded.”

— Helen Grant

“cupboard. The strange little key, which had been his great-grandmother’s,”

— Lynne Reid Banks

“She'd just walked into heaven. And her grandmother was right there, in every scent. Sugary and sweet. Herby and sharp. Yeasty and…

— Sarah Addison Allen

My grandmother's apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

— Arnon Goldfinger

My grandmother introduced me to musicals and Fred Astaire and Cary Grant and all the American comedies and classics.

— Celine Sciamma