Quotes about grandmother
grandmother political doubt
Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. Woodrow Wilson
grandmother way sound
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
grandmother mind plant
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. Tori Amos
grandmother godmother grand-mother
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything. Vivien Leigh
grandmother giving gold
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. Will Smith
grandmother childhood lucky
My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood. Julia Stiles
grandmother church should
My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it. Muddy Waters
grandmother boxing tears
Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head. Muhammad Ali
grandmother past each-day
My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did. Marian Seldes
grandmother past ideas
With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations? Nathan Myhrvold
grandmother feels
I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't. Priscilla Presley
grandmother thinking southern
I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes. Paul Mooney
grandmother forever always-and-forever
Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love Kathy Griffin
grandmother clothes knowing
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life. Oprah Winfrey
grandmother grandparent
We have become a grandmother. Margaret Thatcher
grandmother men hats
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats. Margaret Deland
grandmother security-systems doors
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door. Quincy Jones
grandmother healthy remember
I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother. Prince William
grandmother care doe
My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.
grandmother long enough
I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators. Mother Jones
grandmother faces mouths
In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth. Mona Simpson
grandmother average years
Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother. Terry Pratchett
grandmother stable my-grandmother
I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me. Marc Jacobs
grandmother people next
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever and tell people, 'My grandson is going to be the next Calvin Klein.'
grandmother past voice
Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death's silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed? Kate Morton
grandmother stories taught
Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything." Langston Hughes
grandmother sheep racism
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism. Lisa Bonet
grandmother smallest my-grandmother
My grandmother valued even the smallest of things. Koichi Tanaka
grandmother thinking talking
You need to understand this. We did not think we owned the land. The land was part of us. We didn't even know about owning the land. It is like talking about owning your grandmother - you can't own your grandmother. She just is your grandmother. Why would you talk about owning her? Kent Nerburn
grandmother grandparent african-american
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. Ralph Ellison
grandmother science men
The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother. Ralph Waldo Emerson
grandmother trying my-grandmother
Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try." Joy Bryant
grandmother roof my-grandmother
I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty.