Grandmother Quotes · Page 18

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

— Mike Gordon

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.

— Tina Turner

My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.

— Chris Cleave

My grandmother worked as a front-line service worker in the hospitals of Toronto Centre and broke her back doing it in the…

— Annamie Paul

Throughout my life, my mom, my dad, my grandmother - these were people who made sure that I had the right people…

— Mj Rodriguez

There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'

— Billy Eichner

“Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just…

— Melissa Senate

My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on…

— Amanda Eliasch

I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards…

— Aisha Hinds

I started playing on my grandmother's organ at a really young age. I learned 'Chopsticks' and that kind of thing, but I…

— Jordan Fisher

I love being around my family. I am very close to my mum, my brother, my grandmother, my aunts - we constantly…

— Jourdan Dunn

When the chips are down, grandmothers can be counted on to do whatever's necessary. When the chips are down for grandfathers, we…

— Mike Milligan

I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always…

— Kevin Gates

“Her grandmother had once told her that one could blame ugliness on one's genes and ignorance on one's education, but there was…

— Ruth Hogan

I was the oldest model in South Africa - I grew up in South Africa, but I was born in Canada -…

— Maye Musk

All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years?…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“I am a wife, mother, and friend, and soon to be grandmother, I still feel, understand, and am worthy of the love…

— Lisa Genova

My father is the harbinger of death and destruction. My grandmother the Great Destroyer. My mother is the goddess of the hunt.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“THE STORY GOES THAT I sucked too avidly at my mother’s breast, and caused an abscess to bloom in the tender flesh…

— Michael Chabon

“I have lived an eloquent sufficiency, any more would have been a superfluous redundancy." My grandfather, Howard Creelman, Sr. always said this…

— Curt Creelman

He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it…

— Jon McGregor

My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up…

— Michelle Singletary

“Not an hour after Olivia was found, Portia and her mother were in the family's ancient pickup truck, bumping along the dirt…

— Linda Francis Lee

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

— Salman Rushdie

When I was a girl, my grandmother would take me during the holidays to see the windows at Saks and Rockefeller Center.

— Michael Learned

My grandfather, my grandmother especially, I have a whole family of activists, they've always told me to stand up for what I…

— DeAndre Yedlin

“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“With Mildred Feeblemeister dead, I’m now the world’s 77th greatest grandmother.”

— Jarod Kintz

Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

— Rita Moreno

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

— James Patterson

I've said this before, I would fight my grandmother if I had to. And she's dead.

— Israel Adesanya

A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her…

— Phil Moss

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

— Quincy Jones

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

— Azzedine Alaia

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

— Doug Larson

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.'

— Chamique Holdsclaw

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

— Edwidge Danticat

My mum brought me up by herself, pretty much. She had me at the age of 20, and my grandmother was a…

— Jade Bird