Blessing Quote by Joan Bauer

People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My…

— Grace Paley

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 was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother. She said,…

— Frances Moore Lappé

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough…

— Roald Dahl

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

— Chris Ware

My grandmother said it very simply: "If you don't like dogs, you don't like humans, and vice versa." I really believe that.

— Veronika Varekova

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right…

— Patrick Schwarzenegger

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and…

— Michelle Obama

It's because of women like my grandmother Roberta - women who have lived their lives fearlessly, on their own terms - that I am…

— Meghan McCain

If you'd asked me when I was younger what life would be like in my 50s, I'd probably have imagined someone like my grandmother.…

— Ruth Jones

“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

“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

“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

I am so thankful to those who hate me, to those who hurt me, to those who says no to me, and to those…

— Janet Reolope