Friendship Quote by Grandma Bella and Belli

“Raz i’Syul,” she explained. “The Grandmother said in the old desert tongue it means ‘Child of the Sun.’ It’s what a lot of people…

— Bryce O'Connor

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

— Bobby Knight

“Who's he going to outwit?" Sophia asked. "Relatives." Grandmother said. "Nasty relatives. They tell him what to do without asking him what he wants,…

— Tove Jansson

“A chicken ran by. Did you see it?” her grandmother said.”

— Shewanda Pugh

“When your mind's too restless to think," Grandmother said, "move your hands.”

— Frederic S. Durbin

“Small animals are a great problem. I wish God had never created small animals, or else that He had made them so they could…

— Tove Jansson

“If God had let me come at once, as I prayed, then everything would have been different, I should only have had a little…

— Johanna Spyri

“And I realized that sure Indians were drunk and sad and displaced and crazy and mean but dang we knew how to laugh. When…

— Sherman Alexie

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

— Joan Bauer

so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she…

— John Irving

“What I've learned, Mia, and what my grandmother always said, is that the whole point is wishing and remembering - not if what you…

— Melissa Senate

“But no matter,” Grandmother said. “Let’s let small-minded people live within the confines of their small-minded assumptions while the rest of us carry on…

— Ingrid Paulson

“I can dive", Sophia said. "Do you know what it feels like when you dive?" Of course I do," her grandmother said. "You let…

— Tove Jansson

“There are two ways to respond when life hands you something unpleasant,” the grandmother said, smiling down at the infant in her lap. “You…

— Cynthia Hand

When my father came out to his mom, my grandmother said, 'You waited for your father to die; why couldn't you have waited for…

— Carrie Brownstein