Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessie Ware

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

Isabel Allende

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

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.

Jennifer Morrison

He's knows it like the back of his hand already. His grandpa went to the old Grimes School.

Gena Showalter

I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter.

Eric Clapton

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

Greg Fitzsimmons

I called my grandmother yesterday. She picks up the phone, 'Oh hello, dear, hold on a second, I just stepped out of the shower. Let me go put some clothes on.' I said, 'Hey Grandma, don't ever tell me you're naked again. Go put a lot of clothes on. Then put some more clothes on. I'm going to sit here and drink and try to forget you naked in my head.' I'll never eat raisins again.

Jemaine Clement

I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.

Jen Kirkman

Admittedly, the masturbation story is just a "Hey, this is one of my best-of's, I'll throw it in the special." But the grandmother stuff, really, I feel like is part of the theme and part of the best way to end the story that I'm telling with the special.

Jeb Hensarling

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

Jeaniene Frost

So that makes him, like, your fang granddaddy.

Jeremy Miller

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. Thats my aspiration.

Jennifer Hudson

My family always says my voice is a gift—a precious jewel I inherited from my maternal grandma, Julia Kate Hudson. My sister and I used to joke that the 'Kates' in our family got all the talent.

George Saunders

I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- "The Great Divider

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn.

Shooter Jennings

If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.

Seth Rogen

When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor. I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior and I haven't moved one step forward since.

Tom DeLonge

Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.

Sloane Stephens

My favorite food is macaroni and cheese that my grandma makes. My favorite drink has to be Vita Coco coconut water.

Marge Piercy

The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then, which was Orthodox. I saw the rituals, a lot of them, as very male, for a long time.

Ted Turner

Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.

Margaret Mitchell

So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

Margaret Mead

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

Margaret Mead

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

Margaret Mead

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

Margaret Mead

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

Margaret Mead

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

Melissa Rauch

My grandmother always would say, "This, too, shall pass." It is always true.

Penn Jillette

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

Marjane Satrapi

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

Maureen Forrester

I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.

Maya Angelou

My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.

Maya Angelou

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.