Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Evanovich

When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: "She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.

Erika Christensen

My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.

Cassandra Clare

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

Jay Leno

Obama called on Americans to have more grandchildren. Probably so there's more of them to pay off our debt.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.

Mo Rocca

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

Kirsten Gillibrand

I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.

Mike Birbiglia

I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.

Grandma Moses

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

Gloria Allred

I have two grandchildren.

I don't look at the second half as easier. Every team is a challenge. Grand Rapids might be the most improved team in the league.

Hunter S. Thompson

Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

Hunter S. Thompson

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

Hugh Leonard

My grandmother made dying her life's work.

Horace

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

Horace Mann

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

I can't wait for Saturday and being a Melbourne girl, there is nothing like the AFL Grand Final,

I don't see any impropriety of polling people who used to be grand jurors,

Eric Clapton

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

Hillary Scott

My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook, and I would always help her - whether it was cracking eggs or stirring the green beans. It takes me back there.

Hillary Clinton

I'm a grandmother and like every grandmother, I worry about the safety and security of my grandchildren, but my worries are not the same as black grandmothers.

Herbert Hoover

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.(on the birth of his granddaughter)

Eva Longoria

My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show [Desperate Housewives]. She was so angry because I was on television kissing a boy naked; she's very traditional. She said: "If I ever see you kissing that boy again...".

Isabel Allende

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Ingrid Bergman

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

Felipe Massa

Before each grand prix, the objective is to win it.

Greg Fitzsimmons

I called my grandmother yesterday. She picks up the phone, 'Oh hello, dear, hold on a second, I just stepped out of the shower. Let me go put some clothes on.' I said, 'Hey Grandma, don't ever tell me you're naked again. Go put a lot of clothes on. Then put some more clothes on. I'm going to sit here and drink and try to forget you naked in my head.' I'll never eat raisins again.

Eddie Montgomery

I'll make a plea offer to him. He can take it. If he doesn't, then there might be more grand jury investigation,

William Bass

It was rough. I had three grandkids while I was gone, and all I could get was pictures over e-mails.

It was a warning-track shot. I thought he had hit a grand slam.

Bobby Cox

It was a rough night for Ramirez. The grand slam hurt us.

Martina Hingis

I told her that if you played like that all the time, she would have won a Grand Slam already.