Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

Muhammad Yunus

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Muddy Waters

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.

Muhammad Ali

Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.

Marian Seldes

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.

Nathan Myhrvold

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

Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

Mitt Romney

Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people. And so I'm happy if I'm with Ann; I'm happier if I'm also with my family and my grandchildren.

Priscilla Presley

I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

Nelly Furtado

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.

Neneh Cherry

Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots!

Noam Chomsky

In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy.

Jodi Picoult

I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?

Jodi Picoult

I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.

Kathy Griffin

Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love

Oprah Winfrey

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.

Margaret Thatcher

We have become a grandmother.

Margaret Deland

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

Paul Mooney

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.

Madonna Ciccone

I'll flirt with anyone from garbagemen to grandmothers.

M. Ward

My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

Nicki Minaj

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

Mario Cuomo

I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.

Frances Mayes

I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

Norman Douglas

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

Nina Totenberg

[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.

Mitch Albom

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

Miguel de Cervantes

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Robert Herjavec

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

Rick Riordan

Hazel squinted. "How far?" "Just over the river and through the woods." Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?" Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway.

Rick Riordan

I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother.

Edie Brickell

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.