Quotes about grand
grandma glasses hands
I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once held Grandma Blake's green beans. Larry fished out a peanut butter jar with the label still on it. Extra-crunchy. Yum-Yum. Laurell K. Hamilton
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
grandparent return privilege
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric. John Kenneth Galbraith
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
grandma grandmother cooking
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God. Jonathan Safran Foer
grandfather
Grandfather informs me that is not possible.
grandfather faces window
Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.
grandfather alex good-person
I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated
grandpa spy trying
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. Odette Annable
grandma grandmother grandchildren
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
grandparent aging fourth
We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents Pope Francis
grandfather sandwiches sardines
I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic. Rachael Ray
grandma thinking waiting
Well," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of staying power or they'd have been at the gym with me before. I doubt Grandma Kent there is going to do a lot of damage." He pointed at a gray-haired, hunched lady in a shawl, carrying what looked liked a gardening tool. "It's like Plants Versus Zombies, and I'm not rooting for the zombies, weirdly enough. Rachel Caine
grandparent lucky cherish
If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can. Regina Brett
grandma writing tired
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important? Toni Morrison
grandfather maps lasts
The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. S. I. Hayakawa
grandmother film theater
I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film. Romany Malco
grandmother grandparent grandfather
You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what. Sam Levenson
grandmother names dancing
What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it. Sally Rand
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
grandparent church important
My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church. Lee Greenwood
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.'
grandma laughing tin
She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh. Sharon Olds
grandma pages tweet
I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page. Kathryn Hahn
grandma my-grandma ifs
I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma." "You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma. Kami Garcia
grandmother age fifteen
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general. Jung Chang
grandmother saving charity
My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.' Patrick Schwarzenegger
grandpa giants grizzly-bears
Over Kyle's shoulder she could see grandpa, looking like a cross between a grizzly bear and a giant pissed-off blowfish. P. C. Cast
grandmother skills decision
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. Helen McCrory
grandchildren years saws
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?' Joe Lieberman
grandma people lucky
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. Jo Brand