Quotes About Grandmothers

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.

Seven fine broads are at his side. They sing songs of the Mexican Revolution which they learned from their grandmothers

This is another new territory for grand-mothers. We find ourselves having to share the new center of our life with basically strangers. The sharing part can be difficult.

it was possible this was their first Delaney Christmas ever with just the six of them, because growing up they'd always had the two grandmothers at Christmas lunch, gently lobbing passive-aggressive compliments back and forth across the table.

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

French women choose a scent when they're girls and use it until they're grandmothers. It becomes their trademark. 'Ah,' he murmurs in the dark theater, 'Giselle is here tonight!' But I think that a woman usually outgrows a fragrance every decade or so.

215 ??????? 2014 "Grandmother never seemed old in comparison to the other boys' grandmothers." ???? Notes From: John Boyne. "Boy in the Striped Pajamas." iBooks.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It's a law or something.

they "come to the business of life & the application of knowledge they find that they are inferior—& all their studies have not given them that practical good sense & mother wisdom & wit which grew up with our grandmothers at the spinning wheel,

That's because grandmothers are the most intelligent creatures on this planet. Dolphins are a close second from what I hear.