Grandmother Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Grandmother

Grandmother Quotes & Sayings

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The same kind of Diefenbachia that Grandmother Waterhouse used to have growing on the counter in her downstairs bathroom. — Neal Stephenson

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally. — Carine Roitfeld

But my father told me, and my grandmother told him, whenever you try to change something, you sacrifice something else. — Heidi Heilig

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. — Bob Edwards

I will protect your sister and your vicious Grandmother with my life," Viper promised stiffly. — Anonymous

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what. — Sam Levenson

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother. — Andre Leon Talley

Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs. — Hugh Laurie

On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town. — Gene Perret

My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton. — Cory Booker

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

But the last few years had taught me that one of my grandmother's favorite sayings was true. An ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure. — Charlaine Harris

Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother. — Margaret Whitlam

My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs. — Carol Bartz

It's high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she's got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have - — J.K. Rowling

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood. — Rohit Shetty

Age isn't stealing from my grandmother; it's slowly unwinding her. — Shaun David Hutchinson

When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad. — Colin Firth

Picture your grandmother in Hell, baking pies ... without an oven. — George Carlin

Every woman artist has to kill her own grandmother. She perches on our shoulder whispering, Don't embarrass the family. — Erica Jong

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren. — Doug Larson

I shared my grandmother's distaste for the word rector - it sounded too much like rectum to be taken seriously. — John Irving

They want to cook you and eat you," she said distatefully, "which is ridiculous. You'd taste terrible."
"Thank you, grandmother. — Rick Riordan

Over the water of time I call to you
In a language I do not know. — Ellen S. Jaffe

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Aldo said he was bored to tearsies by my grandmother's diminutives. — Renata Adler

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things. — Stana Katic

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood. — Elena Roger

I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother. — Charlie Day

I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do. — Andy Hallett

The tea tasted like a clear dark dripping from the past. My grandmother came back with it, in crisp black funeral silks, — Ross Macdonald

Children should never have baths,' my grandmother said. 'It's a dangerous
habit.'
'I agree, Grandmamma. — Roald Dahl

I was born in 1968 and grew up in my grandmother's house in suburban Connecticut, where I was convinced a ghost named Virgil lived in the attic. — Jennifer McMahon

Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger. — Anders Zorn

You made a lifetime commitment before God and the world. A silly thing like a divorce doesn't reverse it. — Kellyn Roth

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is. — Ellen DeGeneres

I mourn my sword, but that's alright. Grandmother gave me another one. — Ilona Andrews

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will. — Philip Gulley

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 ancestor and a grandmother. — Agnes Varda

I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric. — Shea Hembrey

My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed - even later on, when I was well known and I supported her. — Al Pacino

I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian. — Jen Lancaster

My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning. — Harley Viera-Newton

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats. — Margaret Deland

I used to call my grandmother 'Nana,' so that seems right to me, but maybe I'll just be 'Jade', in that modern way. — Jade Jagger

My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother. — Jimmy Cliff

My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write. — Wendi Deng Murdoch

It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball. — Tommy Lasorda

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. — Curtis Jackson

I thought your mother liked me." "My grandmother likes you. My mother worries that you might be related to Satan. — Janet Evanovich

Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself! — V.C. Andrews

Jess's grandmother had often said that the key to a happy life was a short memory. — Jojo Moyes

My name is Marissia Pullawr. The White was my grandmother. You were my assignment. I was never a slave. — Brent Weeks

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable. — Marjane Satrapi

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people. — David Dinkins

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most. — Victoria Azarenka

Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love — Kathy Griffin

And my parents don't want me to tell my grandmother - who, let's be honest, is already in the bottom of the ninth inning, age-wise - that — Robin Benway

My look is more grandmother's leftovers than heroin chic. — Alice Glass

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like. — Rian Johnson

Strong and brave, Frank could believe. Picturing Grandmother as good or beautiful was more difficult. — Rick Riordan

I work for wardrobe. Whenever I need clothes, I take a job. If I get maybe like six changes, then I'll be a grandmother, I don't care. — Suzanne Pleshette

I want to reach everybody, from the little girls who are 3 years old, to the grandmother who watches my soap, to a young man in love. — Thalia

How will I feel when I look in a mirror and see the reflection of my grandmother? — S.J. Watson

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids. — Robert Breault

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. — Gene Perret

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians. — Joni Mitchell

i cannot see you anymore. your smile. your legs. your heat. is lonely. the honey, grandmother said, is for your blood. it is to bring you back. — Nayyirah Waheed

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt. — Florence King

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.' — Will Smith

She'd just seen her dead grandmother and had a lovesick warlock on her lawn. The last thing she needed was to worry about extraterrestrial probing. — Michelle M. Pillow

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy. — George Takei

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me. — Alexandra Stoddard

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

Right ain't changed in all these years. From my maternal grandmother, Pearl C. Parker — Deborah L. Parker

For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother. — Kara Swisher

Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style. — Aerin Lauder

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

My grandmother said sex was the best gift God ever gave to mankind-I think it is over rated. — Brenda Kay Winters

I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would turn up and live with us. — Richard Flanagan

It's possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her. — Fredrik Backman

Her great-great-great-great-great grandmother had been burned as a witch. — John Steinbeck

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing. — Alice Walker

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

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences. — Cassandra Wilson

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me. — Carol Burnett

We are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling. — Annie Fellows Johnston

Use your internal grandmother for guidance and advice. — SARK

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me. — Wendell Berry

We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm just the product of my grandmother telling me for years she would see my name on the spines of books. — Hannah Brencher

Don't like when sports interviewers force answers: Are you dedicating this game to your sick grandmother? What's the guy supposed to say? — Brian Regan

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters. — Edwidge Danticat

It's a sword made out of your grandmother's bones, Kate. — Ilona Andrews

I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking. — Debi Mazar

The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee. — Flannery O'Connor

There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows. — James Patterson

My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity. — Prince William

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience. — Jayne Meadows

Photos of the interior displayed a warren of rooms as worn and welcoming as a fairy-tale grandmother's lap, and as rumpled. — Nancy Thayer