My grandmother Quotes · Page 3

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

— Gene Perret

In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at…

— Mona Simpson

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

— Gene Perret

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

— Chris Ware

Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will…

— Will Smith

I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old…

— Hilary Mantel

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible…

— Helen McCrory

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full…

— Lucrecia Martel

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule…

— Charlaine Harris

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a…

— Steve Garvey

Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go…

— Lenny Kravitz

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother…

— Stephen Lang

I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story,…

— Lee Daniels

My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized…

— Ian Somerhalder

My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot…

— Edmund Hillary

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

— Pusha T

Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the…

— Alice Hoffman

Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of…

— Abbi Glines

I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster…

— Dwight Yoakam

Sadly, I wish I had been able to play ["Miner's Prayer"] for [grandfather]. Yeah, I'll never escape the influence of him in…

— Dwight Yoakam

I used to love hospitals. That's another weird thing about me. I remember when my grandmother -- so sweet, God rest her…

— Jennifer Aniston

I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight…

— Erica Jong

I did marry, I did get pregnant, but as I was giving birth, my daughter and I almost died. We were rushed…

— Nancy Grace

As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had…

— Virgil Green

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a…

— Terry Tempest Williams

My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that…

— Jamie Foxx

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through…

— Lisa Bonet

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

Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.

— Joan Bauer

I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.

— Alice Hoffman

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination.…

— Jessica Hagedorn

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at…

— Fanny Fern

I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke,…

— Paul Mooney

In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down…

— Louis Simpson

My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the…

— Alice Hoffman

My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I…

— Eric Ripert

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so…

— Robert Herjavec

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

— Gene Perret