Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Richelle Mead

Was it weird having a witch grandma? Scary? Was she always, like, threatening to cast spells if you were bad?" "Most of the time she just threatened to send me to my room." "That doesn't sound so scary to me." "That's because you haven't met her.

Richelle Mead

When she left for a third time and returned with a giant box, I started to get irate. "What is this?" I demanded, taking it from her. It felt like it had bricks in it. "Grandmother needs you to carry some things," Paul told me. "Yes," I said through gritted teeth. "I sort of figured that out fifty pounds ago.

Russell Baker

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Russell Baker

It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.

Richard Louv

Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.

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.

Richard Rorty

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

Reba McEntire

We all love being outdoors. Grandma was in her garden or fishing; Mama loves to fish and I love to be outside. We all love the Lord.

Reba McEntire

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

Roald Dahl

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

Sandra Lee

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

Roseanne Barr

My grandmother ... came here, not only like so many others because of the streets 'being paved with gold' and all, but because she wanted to leave the place where the streets were paved with people who had not gone to America.

Rohit Shetty

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

Robert Plant

I'm a grandfather now.

Sasha Pieterse

I got stopped in front of the bras in Victoria's Secret; I get interrogated in airport bathrooms. I went to South Africa in January to see my family, and even there people would stop me and ask, "Sasha, who's A?" Even my grandma.

Sara Paretsky

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

Vivien Leigh

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

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.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Zora Neale Hurston

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

Zach Galifianakis

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

Zac Efron

Don't get me wrong - I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!

Yuvraj Singh

We have started calling him grandfather.

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.

Will Smith

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'

Werner Herzog

Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.

Wayne Wonder

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

Koichi Tanaka

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

Kenny Wallace

In a strange way, becoming a grandfather is like starting your life over.

Kent Nerburn

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?

Ralph Ellison

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.