Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woodrow Wilson

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

Rian Johnson

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

Tori Amos

My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind... like Robert Plant.

Vivien Leigh

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

Will Smith

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

Joni Mitchell

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.

Kenneth Cranham

My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.

Jacob Latimore

I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to L.A. when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.

Lamar Odom

My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.

Zach Galifianakis

I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.

William Feather

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Mike Krzyzewski

It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.

Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Caroline Kennedy

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

William Shakespeare

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

Jan Karon

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Billy Crystal

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

Cybill Shepherd

I would very much like to go on her talk show. Maybe not a cooking show. She's got all the hot grease and stuff.

Rose Macaulay

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

Tyler Florence

I love food, all food, everything about food. I enjoy going to the market and having what's in front of me - what's fresh, seasonal - tell me what I'm cooking.

Truman Capote

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

Rex Stout

Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.

Will Ferrell

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

Rebecca Wells

Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you ...

W. H. Auden

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

Rodney Dangerfield

my wifes cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens