Grandmother Quotes · Page 17

“... He remembered once hearing his grandmother... say plaintively: "Why daughter, I presume I can go without -- BUT I CAN'T ECONOMIZE.”

— Edith Wharton

When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that…

— Chadwick Boseman

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of…

— Lamar Odom

I have a very loving grandmother who instills guidance and responsibility and faith in myself.

— Jade Cargill

I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.

— Carine Roitfeld

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.

— Philip Gulley

I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and…

— Lorraine Toussaint

When I think about my late grandmother and how she used to talk to me, I become very emotional.

— Divock Origi

I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my…

— Marisa Berenson

I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going…

— Lynda Resnick

I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when…

— Eric Clapton

What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies…

— Vaughn J Featherstone

“When Deepa poured Bela some water from the urn that stood on a little stool, in the corner of the room, her…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

My grandmother got me recordings of the 'Goldberg Variations,' in addition to the 'Brandenburg Concertos,' the Mozart string quartets and Beethoven's 'Seventh…

— Chris Thile

My favorite thing about my grandmother is her lust for life and how much she has shown me about living every day…

— Meghan McCain

When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already…

— Michael Greger

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary…

— Maya Angelou

Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Mouloud Benzadi

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

— Marilynne Robinson

I remember one day I came home and shouted to my grandmother, "Grandma, Sarah is pregnant!" Poor Sarah! For weeks before I…

— Elie Wiesel

Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on…

— Julia Quinn

“In those years when their mother disappeared into herself, and old Mrs Jeffrey next door turned into Frannie, their honorary grandmother, Alice…

— Liane Moriarty

When I was almost two years old, my grandmother flew from Hongcheon, South Korea, to Flushing, Queens, to take care of me.

— Crystal Hana Kim

“sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life.”

— Wallace Stegner

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.

— Afeni Shakur

“43. Answer: They were grandmother, mother and daughter. Go Back | Go to the Next Riddle”

— Puzzleland

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvellous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

— Anonymous

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't…

— Adam Sandler

Tinsel on our Christmas trees is a Hart family staple started by my grandmother, Helen Hart.

— Natalya Neidhart

I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker!…

— Jordin Sparks

I finally learned what it's like to be a grandmother; subjugated, yet honored.

— Zoidberg

What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

— Sally Rand

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when…

— Anonymous

My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a democrat in…

— Emo Philips

My mum and grandmother didn't start their menopause until their early fifties.

— Amanda Redman

I was sick a lot, and doctors told my grandmother I'd never grow up to be big and strong. Isn't that ironic?

— Howie Long

I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother.

— Rick Riordan

I'm like an international girl all day long. But I love the black women in my life: my grandmother, my mom.

— LeToya Luckett