Grandmother Quotes · Page 22

I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.

— Carlene Carter

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.

— Richard Lewis

I was born in Mumbai and raised in Mangalore at my grandmother's home which had a farm with animals.

— Srinidhi Shetty

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

— Miguel de Cervantes

There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.

— Laura Carmichael

I was seven years old when my grandmother stated teaching me to sew, and she always encouraged me to be creative.

— Ashley Nell Tipton

I grew up until I was seven in Jamaica with my grandmother, who I still think of as the greatest person I…

— Linford Christie

“He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she…

— Richard Brautigan

My grandmother would let me stand on a stool stirring gravy in a large roasting dish in front of a wood-fired stove…

— John Torode

The tattoos are about my grandmother dying, and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister,…

— Timothy F. Cahill

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an…

— Agnes Varda

Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving…

— Elizabeth Noble

“My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. “Yes,”…

— Jodi Picoult

“Eventually, as her grandmother’s sobs softened, she pulled her away and – looking deeply into the clouds of her grey eyes –…

— Abby Slovin

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives…

— Hilary Mantel

Cod and clementine is one of the things my grandmother cooked for my mum when she was a child. Never one for…

— Nadiya Hussain

For me, I was born in the Bronx, and I moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia at a very young age. I had…

— Pusha T

“My grandfather was a duck trapper He could do it with just dragnets and ropes My grandmother could sew new dresses out…

— Bob Dylan

“One Monday, just for sport, Charlie grabbed an eggplant that a spectacularly wizened granny was going for, but instead of twisting it…

— Christopher Moore

My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94,…

— Loung Ung

My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy…

— Sherri Shepherd

“Well," she said, "how can I be sure there aren't invisible people in the world? Scientists didn't believe in the mountain gorilla…

— Sherman Alexie

I credit my grandmother for my sense of style. She was known for wearing bright, outrageous things because it made people happy…

— Blake Mycoskie

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

— Daniel Clowes

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

— Rita Coolidge

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

— Romany Malco

“Elsa thinks about how Granny used to say, 'You have standards and I have double standards, and so I win.”

— Fredrik Backman

“It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.”

— Barbara Cameron

“What if, what if, what fucking if. If my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a fucking bus,”

— Roy Robson

When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

— Karin Slaughter

“My grandmother is over eighty and she still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.”

— Henny Youngman

“Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognizeas food. There”

— Sarah Ballantyne

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

— Jilly Cooper

As a little girl, I remember always wanting my grandmother to make blackberry cobbler for me. I'm obsessed with it.

— Lauren Alaina

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

— Jill Scott

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

— Margaret Mead

I get migraines. I've had them all my life; so has my dad. So did his grandmother, although back then they called…

— Naomi Alderman

These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.

— Tulsi Gabbard

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

— Joe Bob Briggs