Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Quinn

Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade.

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.

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.

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.

O. Henry

Grandpa always said to try to learn something new every day and if you think you've learned it all it was time to get out of the business.

Grand Junction is just a solid team and they are a tough team to face, but we still have to come out and play our baseball.

John Muir

grandest special temple of nature I was ever permitted to enter.

Isak Dinesen

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

Katie McGrath

I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist.

Kris Carr

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

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.

Gloria Allred

I have two grandchildren.

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.

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.

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...".

Erma Bombeck

A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect.

Henry Louis Gates

The second thing that happened is, DNA analysis is much more sophisticated. All you have to do now is spit in a test tube and you find out all kind of things in six weeks - where they are from in Africa or Europe. You can prove or disprove the fundamental African-American myth that you descended from a Cherokee great, great grandmother.

Henry Louis Gates

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

Helen Keller

I will eat grandfather for dinner.

Chris Hardwick

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

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.