Grandmother Quotes · Page 3

My grandmother made dying her life's work.

— Hugh Leonard

An actress of my calibre is not afraid of playing a grandmother!

— Sudha Chandran

I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

— Joan Collins

My mother and grandmother both had beautiful skin.

— Andie MacDowell

My grandmother was the genesis of my connection and passion to food.

— Lidia Bastianich

My grandmother is the black-sheep rebel of the family.

— David Andrew Sinclair

Some moments can only be cured with a big squishy grandma hug.

— Anonymous

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

— Jill Lepore

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

— Junot Diaz

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody,…

— Richard Land

My grandmother, Erminia 'Minnie' Morocco, treated cookies like a form of currency.

— Chris Morocco

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.'…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

We've always sung. As I have become a grandmother and become older, of course you have less voice and you notice this…

— Princess Michael of Kent

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont…

— John Calipari

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

— Hugo Chavez

In Brazil, you are very close to your family; we saw our cousins every weekend, and my grandmother lived with us.

— Morena Baccarin

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

My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my…

— Brian Acton

I've seen my grandmothers grow old and they are so beautiful, every wrinkle in their face tells a story. I want to…

— Penelope Cruz

My grandmother, Betty Bertha Bright, lived in the Armenian block in Kolkata. After '36 Chowringhee Lane,' we haven't seen that part of…

— Pooja Bhatt

“Her grandmother keeps announcing that Esme will never find a husband if she doesn't change her ways. Yesterday, when she said it…

— Maggie O'Farrell

Although my grandmother was a strict parent and abided my grandfather's kosher diet, as a Nana, she had grown away from religion…

— Josh Gondelman

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into…

— Rahul Gandhi

I am the first one in my family to go to college and I felt a great responsibility when I was at…

— Jessica Chastain

I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me,…

— Rick Bragg

The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or…

— Janusz Korczak

My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately,…

— Joy Bryant

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

There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck…

— Miguel de Cervantes

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to…

— Bobby Knight

I watched my great-grandmother be buried on FaceTime.

— Dinah Jane

“I say, " Things happen for a good reason.”

— Gawri Manecuta

My grandmother and father both had diabetes.

— Alvin Leung

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

— Charles Colson

I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

— Priscilla Presley

I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.

— Sasha Pivovarova

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

— Erma Bombeck

My grandmother was a promoter. My father was a promoter.

— Jeff Jarrett