--- title: "7 Grandmother Life Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Grandmother Life quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Grandmother Life sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/oprah-winfrey-186_awareness_i-remember-a-specific-moment-watching-my_580311.jpg" --- > [I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oprah-winfrey/i-remember-a-specific-moment-watching-my-grandmother-hang-the-clothes/) [Oprah Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oprah-winfrey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/oprah-winfrey-186_awareness_i-remember-a-specific-moment-watching-my_580311.jpg) > [My mom grew up without a father because he died in the Korean War. And my grandmother, her life was completely upended…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-isaac-chung/my-mom-grew-up-without-a-father-because-he-died-in-the-korean-war-and/) [Lee Isaac Chung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-isaac-chung/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65b/lee-isaac-chung-5469_father_my-mom-grew-up-without-a-father-because_644480.jpg) > [It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/it-follows-that-if-you-are-not-a-mother-you-are-not-a-grandmother/) [Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64e/hilary-mantel-440_grandmother_it-follows-that-if-you-are-not-a-mother_874340.jpg) > [“My grandmother's life had been one long opera. There had been drama, heroes, villains, improbable twists, all that. But most of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-george/my-grandmother-s-life-had-been-one-long-opera-there-had-been-drama/) [Alex George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-george/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ee/alex-george-43359_life_my-grandmother-s-life-had-been-one-long_1160227.jpg) > [I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carine-roitfeld/i-think-when-i-became-a-grandmother-my-life-changed-a-lot-and-i-think/) [Carine Roitfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carine-roitfeld/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d7/carine-roitfeld-1355_became_i-think-when-i-became-a-grandmother-my-l_1645227.jpg) > [It's right around this time that her Grandmother Hall dies. And Eleanor Roosevelt is responsible for making all the funeral arrangements. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blanche-wiesen-cook/it-s-right-around-this-time-that-her-grandmother-hall-dies-and/) [Blanche Wiesen Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blanche-wiesen-cook/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/219/blanche-wiesen-cook-13340_arrangements_it-s-right-around-this-time-that-her-gra_2779677.jpg) > [“Her grandmother had a life, a life Claire hadn't known about or even imagined. She had tried so hard to know everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-addison-allen/her-grandmother-had-a-life-a-life-claire-hadn-t-known-about-or-even/) [Sarah Addison Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-addison-allen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/sarah-addison-allen-810_claire-waverley_her-grandmother-had-a-life-a-life-claire_2926694.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/grandmother-life/#itemlist", "name": "Grandmother Life Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oprah Winfrey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oprah-winfrey/i-remember-a-specific-moment-watching-my-grandmother-hang-the-clothes/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/oprah-winfrey-186_awareness_i-remember-a-specific-moment-watching-my_580311.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/oprah-winfrey-186_awareness_i-remember-a-specific-moment-watching-my_580311.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/oprah-winfrey-186_awareness_i-remember-a-specific-moment-watching-my_580311.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me…” — Oprah Winfrey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My mom grew up without a father because he died in the Korean War. 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