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Quotes About Grandmother

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
~ Hannah Whithall Smith
Nothing gave her greater pleasure than to hear about the world of human beings up above; she made her old grandmother tell her all that she knew about ships and towns, people and animals. But above all it seemed strangely beautiful to her that up on the earth the flowers were scented, for they were not so at the bottom of the sea.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
The difficulty is believing what we are told, and my grandmother said that a good prayer depends on the audience. It's all in the clutter of words, this eloquence, the lives before and after transformed into fingerprints, notes of music, the accessories of forgotten civilizations.
~ Laurie Blauner
Time has become a melding of minutes and months and the feeling of seasons. […] Leon says it is the Bhutan Time Warp and I know what he means. Time does not hurl itself forward at breakneck speed here. Change happens very slowly. A grandmother and her granddaughter wear the same kind of clothes, they do the same work, they know the same songs. The granddaughter does not find her grandmother an embarrassing, boring relic.
~ Jamie Zeppa
If she wasn't your grandmother I'd shoot her. Ranger
~ Janet Evanovich
My grandmother is a little Cuban woman who cooks all day and speaks Spanish. Your grandmother watches pay-per-view porn. She used to watch the Weather Channel, but she said there wasn't enough action. -Ranger and Stephanie
~ Janet Evanovich
Is that your granny?" Ranger wanted to know. "Yup. She was checking to make sure Moogey was here." "You've got a helluva gene pool, babe.
~ Janet Evanovich
You should snap me up," Morelli said. "Not many men would marry you after meeting your grandmother. You're lucky to have me.
~ Janet Evanovich
Your grandmother needs a ride to the viewing, and I'm holding you responsible if she shoots someone, gets arrested, or tries to take a selfie with the deceased.
~ Janet Evanovich
My grandmother is a little Cuban woman who cooks all day and speaks Spanish. Your grandmother watches pay-per-view porn." "She used to watch the Weather Channel, but she said there wasn't enough action.
~ Janet Evanovich
My grandmother says your grandmother is stalking her.
~ Janet Evanovich
I've always talked to people about my grandmother, who is really into technology and has been on Twitter since 2006. It's unreal how tech-savvy she is.
~ iJustine
In Quanzhou, I have a lot of influence from superstition. I would go to the temple with my grandmother and mother. That is why I have a lot of curiosity about the unseen force and invisible things.
~ Cai Guo-Qiang
I'm a believer, but an unsettled one. I think it has something to do with the fact that my grandmother always told me she would come back and tickle my feet at night time when she passed away. She hasn't gotten me yet. But I keep the blanket over my feet at night, no matter how hot it is.
~ Shari Sebbens
My earliest memories are listening to my Grandmother playing the piano at our house as I jumped up and down on the couch. She was a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony in the 30s and 40s, and was a huge influence on me.
~ James Newton Howard
My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
~ Lamar Odom
We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
~ Mahesh Babu
My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical background and upbringing was very much a mix.
~ Phillipa Soo
My grandmother was not a great storyteller.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.
~ Jamie Foxx
What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
~ Sally Rand
We must have a creature made of Darkness to break through the cage of Darkenss that imprisons your grandmother, Thanatos said. That creature is me. Aurox stepped forward. Oh, for shit's sake! We are absolutely fucked! Aphrodite said. Sadly I had to agree with her.
~ P.C. Cast
Like many men and women who make egregious and irretrievable mistakes with their own children, she would redeem herself by becoming the perfect grandmother.
~ Pat Conroy
The Sibyl, sharp as an owl on the hunt, noticed his discomfiture at once. The mischievous smile, which she delivered at the last, finally revealed her monstrous teeth, and abruptly transformed her from the Grandmother into the Wolf.
~ Patricia Duncker