Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Allred

I have two grandchildren.

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,

I am pleased to let you know that the Grand will be Grander than ever.

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.

Iyanla Vanzant

My grandma always said, "Trouble is what God uses to prepare you for better things!" If you have trouble in your life, you are in a valley. If you are in a valley, you are being prepared for something bigger, better, greater; something you probably could not handle now.

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.

Neal Shusterman

My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?

Mila Kunis

Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother resorted to passing out candy so the kids would play with her. Though it was a humorous moment, Mila said, "I know, God bless her. She's an amazing, amazing woman."

Jordin Sparks

With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.

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.

Kevin Smith

With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.

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.

Kellan Lutz

I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.

Kellan Lutz

I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.

Joe Lieberman

Shame on us if 100 years from now our grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by Global Warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?'

Jo Brand

I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days.

James Patterson

There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.

James McAvoy

I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, 'Oh, what was that like? That must have been hard.' And you go: 'No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?

Novak Djokovic

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

Helen McCrory

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

Kevin Whately

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Grandfather informs me that is not possible.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

Odette Annable

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.