Grandmother Quotes · Page 14

When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.

— Elizabeth Warren

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

— Gary Snyder

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

— Margaret Mead

[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.

— Pauline Oliveros

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

— Elizabeth Goudge

I believe in things I can count on, like beer and ESPN and my grandmother's pecan pie.

— Justin Timberlake

“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.”

— George Brett

“Her grandmother had said once that she felt it was only her body that was old. Inside she had always been the…

— Jostein Gaarder

Much is written about parenting - its joys and tribulations - and then about the transition into hot flushes, night sweats and…

— Kate Garraway

I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my…

— Saina Nehwal

You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to…

— Derek Jeter

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a…

— Georgina Chapman

Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She…

— Kate Morton

I definitely live to eat. I love food in every way imaginable, and it does not have to be fancy. Whether we…

— Bill Rancic

My grandmother was one of the greatest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have…

— Reese Witherspoon

A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister…

— Larry Wilmore

“I briefly considered getting a cat, but then decided against it because I didn’t want to be one of those people. You…

— T.J. Klune

The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down…

— Adriana Trigiani

Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her…

— Kate Morton

“Willa had always thought her grandmother was sweet, but she'd been one of those people with invisible thorns, preventing others from getting…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother.…

— Warsan Shire

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

— Louise Leakey

My grandmother was a single mother. My mother's a single mother, and I have four daughters. I've experienced firsthand the challenges of…

— Richelieu Dennis

“There have been times," Father Mark admitted, "when I feared that God would turn out to be like my maternal grandmother [...]…

— Richard Russo

My dad is a mechanic from Sheffield and my grandmother lives in Rotherham, bless her.

— Spencer Matthews

My grandmother said it very simply: "If you don't like dogs, you don't like humans, and vice versa." I really believe that.

— Veronika Varekova

My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.

— Richard Pryor

I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there.

— Julia Holter

I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in…

— Anonymous

“It isn't often one gets the chance to entertain one's great-great-great-grandmother. Sassinak.”

— Anne McCaffrey Elizabeth Moon

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

— George Eads

My grandmother's number-one rule was that once you start something, you don't quit. From a young age, she never let me give…

— Tori Bowie

I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?'

— Zach Galifianakis

My grandmother really inspires me. I lived with her until halfway through middle school, since both my parents worked a lot.

— Jeongyeon

My grandmother has a great aesthetic sense. Unfortunately I didn't inherit it.

— Ginevra Elkann

“My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah, said, "Money matters is only a matter of fancy.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Is it possible that my great-grandmother would not want me to know why and how she left?”

— Gaiutra Bahadur

My grandmother knew J.F.K. and L.B.J. That was her world. I enjoy meeting interesting people. But that's not my world.

— Katharine Weymouth

It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.

— Bernice King

My grandma was a huge believer, very spiritual, probably the most spiritual person I've ever known in my life.

— Reba McEntire