quotes about Grandma
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Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
This is the most precious gift anyone has ever received. You gave me back a memory that I will cherish forever. You gave me something from my grandma I didn't know I had. And you kept it and it lef you back to mme. It gave me you'' I felt a wetness in my eyes and I blinked confused from the strange sensation. A small trickle of water rand down my cheek. I stared into the darkness as I held Pagan in my arms in amazement Death had just shed a tear.
-- Abbi Glines -
I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
-- AdeleSource : Stuart Chase (2015). “Tyranny of Words”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
-- Al Sharpton -
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I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.
-- Alan Jackson -
I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans.
-- Alison Sweeney -
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
-- Allan ShermanSource : Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”
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In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.
-- Amanda Beard -
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You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.
-- Amaury NolascoSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!
-- America FerreraSource : "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.
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I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.
-- Anne Burrell -
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
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On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out
-- Arne Jacobsen -
I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.
-- Barbara Billingsley -
A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'
-- Beth DittoSource : "The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.
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My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.
-- Brian Andreas -
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As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.
-- Carole Keeton -
All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.
-- Carolyn Porco -
Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.
-- Carson Daly -
I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with really frightening books, like one on Jack the Ripper. She also had a poster of a shark in the closet which also terrified me at the time.
-- Christopher Bollen -
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We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.
-- Chuck Grassley -
I heard some famous people had an anniversary, five long years together, it was Hollywood history. Now my grandma and grandpa never made no printed page, but they took the love of 57 years right to the grave.
-- Clay Walker -
Some moments can only be cured with a big squishy grandma hug.
-- Daniel Pearce -
Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!
-- Dave Niehaus -
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Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.
-- David Ebershoff -
Usually I wear my grandma's old aprons, or others I have collected in my travels. When I was young, I would sit and watch my grandma prepare stuff. She wasn't Italian, but she did really good Italian food.
-- Debi Mazar -
Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.
-- Debi Mazar -
Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise passed her eyes She's seen it all
-- Dianne Reeves -
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I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.
-- Dolly PartonSource : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 21, 2010.
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My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one."
-- Donald Cerrone -
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
-- E. B. White -
If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.
-- Edith KoneckySource : Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.8, Feminist Press at CUNY
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If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.
-- Edith KoneckySource : Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.118, Feminist Press at CUNY
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I just wanted to see how it felt to shoot Grandma.
-- Edmund Kemper -
I think when you take off that jacket and they see that ‘I LOVE GRANDMA’ T-shirt, they’re going to rip your heart out.
-- Elayne Boosler -
Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me 'Grandma Jazz.'
-- Ella Fitzgerald -
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We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree. "Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents. "Can't help you there, I'm afraid." In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names.
-- Emma Donoghue -
Remember that the old lady who's taking forever in line is someone's grandma
-- Eric Stonestreet -
My grandma used to make syrup for us because we couldn't afford it and I just played around with her recipe. I made strawberry syrup and that didn't really work out but I made strawberry-vanilla and that sold. Then I just went out and took marketing classes, went to seminars, learned about marketing a product and striking deals. It ended up taking orders of $1.5 million.
-- Farrah GraySource : TheCelebrityCafe.com Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. February 23, 2011.
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Grandma said [...] when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go.
-- Forrest Carter -
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Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew.
-- Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire -
My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
-- Gail DeversSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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My granddad used to say, If everybody liked the same thing, they'd all be after your grandma.
-- Gary Mule Deer -
The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.
-- Gary Vaynerchuk -
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Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.
-- Hal Boyle -
It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.
-- Heidi W. DurrowSource : Heidi W. Durrow (2011). “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”, p.29, Algonquin Books
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The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.
-- Henry Louis Gates -
You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma
-- Jack GantosSource : Jack Gantos (2002). “What Would Joey Do?”, p.65, Macmillan
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He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.
-- James Finn GarnerSource : James Finn Garner (2011). “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories”, p.6, Souvenir Press
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Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.
-- Jamie Foxx -
My father hired you to protect me," Ahmed said, "not to go off chasing men." Grandma leaned forward, keeping her eye on the Taurus. "We think this guy killed Fred." "Who's Fred?" "My uncle," I told him. "He's married to Mabel." "Ah so you're avenging a murder in the family. This is a good thing.
-- Janet Evanovich -
I know what you're thinking," Grandma said into the silence. "Do I have anymore bullets in this here gun? Well, with all the confusion, what with being locked up in a refrigerator, I plumb forgot what was in here to start with. But being that this is a 45 magnum, the most powerful handgun in existence, and it could blow your head clean off, you just got to ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky today? Well, do you, punk?" Christ," Spiro whispered. "She thinks she's f**king Clint Eastwood.
-- Janet Evanovich -
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Aren't you something," Grandma said. "I never saw a midget up close." "Little person," Briggs said. "And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either.
-- Janet Evanovich -
Grandma Mazur stood two feet back from my mother. "I gotta get me a pair if those," she said, eyeballing my shorts. "I've still got pretty good legs, you know." She raised her skirt and looked down at her knees. "What do you think? You think I'd look good in them biker things?" Grandma Mazur had knees like doorknobs.
-- Janet Evanovich -
The dog ran into the kitchen, stuck his nose in Grandma's crotch, and snuffled. Dang," Grandma said. "Guess my new perfume really works. I'm gonna have to try it out at the seniors meeting.
-- Janet Evanovich -
Maybe it was me," Grandma said."Sometimes they sneak out.Did I fart?
-- Janet Evanovich -
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I always wanted to eat with a Negro,†Grandma said. Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a boney- assed old white woman,†Lula said. “So I guess this works out good.
-- Janet Evanovich -
You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him if it was aliens," Grandma said.
-- Janet Evanovich -
[Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had to check the ring out, and in the process broke off one of George's fingers. Turns out the finger was wax. Somehow Kenny got into the mortuary this morning, left Spiro a note, and chopped off George's finger. And then while I was at the mall tonight with Mary Lou, Kenny threatened me in the shoe department. That must have been when he put the finger in my pocket.' [Morelli] 'Have you been drinking?
-- Janet Evanovich -
You need teeth like mine!" Grandma said. "You can just mail 'em to the dentist!
-- Janet Evanovich -
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When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: "She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.
-- Janet Evanovich -
[Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love" [Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it.
-- Janet Evanovich -
I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down." Grandma Mazur
-- Janet Evanovich -
I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.
-- Jemaine ClementSource : Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.
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My family always says my voice is a gift—a precious jewel I inherited from my maternal grandma, Julia Kate Hudson. My sister and I used to joke that the 'Kates' in our family got all the talent.
-- Jennifer Hudson -
My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
-- Joan BauerSource : Joan Bauer (1999). “Rules of the road”
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We don’t LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they are
-- John Bytheway -
You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.
-- John McAfee -
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Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.
-- John Mellencamp -
A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.
-- John Wright -
My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
-- Karlie Kloss -
I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.
-- Kathryn Hahn -
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Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.
-- Kris Carr -
If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma."
-- Linda Sunshine -
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.
-- Liv Ullmann -
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
-- Lois WyseSource : Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony
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So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.
-- Lois Wyse -
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
That's what it is to be a grandma. All fun and no stress.
-- Marie Osmond -
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The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.
-- Mario Batali -
When these Asians go out looking for a victim, they don't go looking for Asian victims. They don't go mugging Asian grandmas, they don't go stabbing each other, they don't go trying to solicit sex off little Pritesh or little Sanjita, they go straight to the whites because they are trying to destroy us and they are the racists.
-- Mark CollettSource : "Retrial begins of BNP leaders accused of stirring racial hatred" by Martin Wainwright, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.
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Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ***** in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.
-- Marla SokoloffSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.
-- Mary E. Pearson -
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Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago....
-- Mary Mapes Dodge -
The Baby Boom has spawned an even bigger Grandma Boom. For every baby born, two women turn into grandmas.
-- Mary Margaret McBride -
The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma."
-- Mary NorrisSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother resorted to passing out candy so the kids would play with her. Though it was a humorous moment, Mila said, "I know, God bless her. She's an amazing, amazing woman."
-- Mila Kunis -
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Well, that’s not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.
-- Mira Grant -
My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
-- Natalia Kills -
Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
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I have a glam-baby. Let's be correct, now. I'm way too young and too fabulous to be a grandma. I'm a glam-mom.
-- NeNe LeakesSource : "EXCLUSIVE: NeNe Leakes on 'The New Normal,' Gay Rights and Her 'Glam-Baby'". Interview with Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. September 11, 2012.
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And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)
-- Nicole Krauss -
You be as angry as you need to be,†she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
-- Patrick Ness -
Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill, he vowed to her that someday he would try to tell the world her life story. 'But why?' she asked humbly. 'I'm no one, just a girl from the coast' 'But you are everyone, Grandma,' the young Pramoedya told her. 'You are all the people who have ever had to fight to make this life their own.
-- Pramoedya Ananta ToerSource : Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Willem Samuels (2002). “The girl from the coast: a novel”, Hyperion Books
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As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.
-- Prince WilliamSource : "Katie Couric Interviews Prince William, Harry In ABC News Special For Diamond Jubilee". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.
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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
-- Queen Elizabeth II -
Well," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of staying power or they'd have been at the gym with me before. I doubt Grandma Kent there is going to do a lot of damage." He pointed at a gray-haired, hunched lady in a shawl, carrying what looked liked a gardening tool. "It's like Plants Versus Zombies, and I'm not rooting for the zombies, weirdly enough.
-- Rachel Caine -
Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.
-- Richard PeckSource : Richard Peck (2000). “A Year Down Yonder”
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