Quotes and Sayings About Grandmother
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People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
-- Alan Bradley -
I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
-- Alan Bradley -
No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.
-- Alane Ferguson -
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
-- Albert Einstein -
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
-- Alex Haley -
My look is more grandmother’s leftovers than ***** chic.
-- Alice Glass -
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 great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.
-- Alice Walker -
If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone had ever spoken to W. W. Hale the Fifth in that manner. Kat was also fairly certain it wouldn't be the last. "I might lose my grandmother's company." Kat gave a smile and held Hale tight. "You won't lose me.
-- Ally Carter -
There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.
-- Alvin Dark -
Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.
-- Amanda Donohoe -
You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement.
-- Amitav Ghosh -
My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better.
-- Andre Bauer -
The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
-- Andrei Codrescu -
I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do.
-- Andy Hallett -
Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.
-- Angela Carter -
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.
-- Angela Carter -
Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
-- Ann Brashares -
She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house.
-- Anne Ursu -
Im at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.
-- Anne Wojcicki -
we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.
-- Annie Fellows Johnston -
My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.
-- Anthony Minghella -
My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.
-- Apolo Ohno -
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.
-- Azzedine Alaia -
Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself--over and over--not to do it.
-- Barry Lyga
