Quotes of: Grandmothers Keyword

My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.

Gerard Way

My grandmother had no time for old, no matter how her face crinkled or her days folded like an apron around her middle.

It Broke Anyway

Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

Rebel Queen

Harder! Harder! Strike at it, for the gods’ sake! It’s a Parthian, not your grandmother! I swear if you don’t put some effort into— What?

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

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

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?

Out of Oz

Too many men have died in the name of old age. I know, because my grandmother was one of them.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

You have to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandmother was.

A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living

My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!

Edie Brickell

I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. ...

Richard Carmona

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

Ronnie Dunn

I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

Hilary Mantel

My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow.

Julian Castro

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

Peter Mullan

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Russell Baker

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

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

Richard Land

You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.

Ted Danson

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.

Tracy Morgan

My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised.

Kristina McMorris

Grandmother's knee is a wonderful place to learn about the Bible, ghosts, and even Santa Claus, but a mighty poor place to learn about history.

L.B. Taylor Jr.